Burnett / Smith Scenes of Attention

Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55878-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

This book investigates attention from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, history, anthropology, art history, and comparative literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burnett, D. Graham

Smith, Justin E. H.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, by D. Graham Burnett and Justin E. H. Smith
Part I. Histories of Attention
1. The Discovery of Attention, by Richard J. Spiegel
2. Attention and Boredom in Early American Psychology, by Henry M. Cowles
3. Attending to the Birds: Ornithologists and Listening, by Alexandra Hui
4. Attention, Art, and Psychotherapeutics, by Julian Chehirian
Part II. Philosophies of Attention
5. Attention: Mechanism and Virtue, by Carlos Montemayor
6. Attention, Technology, and Creativity, by Carolyn Dicey Jennings and Shadab Tabatabaeian
7. Attention to Absence and Imagination, by Jonardon Ganeri
8. Dispatch from the Jhana Wars: Attention Practice in Online Buddhism, by John Tresch
Part III. Attention, Technology, Culture
9. Wearable Attention: Course-Correction for Wandering Minds, by Natasha Dow Schüll
10. Attentional ‘Ownership’: Online Education and Self-Possession, by Brian Yuan
11. Attention is All You Need: Humans and Computers in the Time of Neural Networks
Nick Seaver
12. Medium Focus, by Joanna Fiduccia
Part IV. Endgame(s)
13. Attention Fast, Attention Slow: Obsession, Compulsion, Holding Close, by Yael Geller
14. Units of Intensive Care: Poetic Attention and the Precarious Body, by Lucy Alford
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

D. Graham Burnett is a professor of history and the history of science at Princeton University, where he is affiliated with the IHUM interdisciplinary doctoral program. His scholarly books on cartography, empire, optics, and the oceans have examined the changing understanding of nature from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Burnett is associated with the research collective ESTAR(SER) and the activist coalition “The Friends of Attention,” with whom he coauthored Twelve Theses on Attention (2022).

Justin E. H. Smith is professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Cité and a member of the SPHERE Laboratory for Research in the History of Science. He is the author of five books, most recently The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning (2022), and a frequent contributor to a number of popular publications. In 2015 a main-belt asteroid, 4.5 kilometers in diameter, was named after him: 13585 Justinsmith (1993 TC20).