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The power of distraction : diversion and reverie from Montaigne to Proust
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ISBN: 9781350342941 9781350342989 Year: 2023 Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"Combining philosophy and literature, this book considers distraction not as an imperfection, but as a mental state with political and aesthetic potential"--


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The problem of distraction
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ISBN: 0804778973 9780804778978 9780804775380 0804775389 0804786879 9780804786874 Year: 2012 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,

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We live in an age of distraction. Contemporary analyses of culture, politics, techno-science, and psychology insist on this. They often suggest remedies for it, or ways to capitalize on it. Yet they almost never investigate the meaning and history of distraction itself. This book corrects this lack of attention. It inquires into the effects of distraction, defined not as the opposite of attention, but as truly discontinuous intellect. Human being has to be reconceived, according to this argument, not as quintessentially thought-bearing, but as subject to repeated, causeless blackouts of mind.T


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The problem of distraction
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The Problem of Distraction presents the first genealogy of the concept from Aristotle to the largely forgotten, early twentieth-century efforts by Kafka, Heidegger, and Benjamin to revolutionize the humanities by means of distraction. Further, the book makes the case that our present troubles cannot be solved by recovering or enhancing attention. Not-always-thinking beings are beset by radical breaks in their experience, but in this way they are also receptive to what has not and cannot yet be called experience."--Pub. desc. "We live in an age of distraction. Contemporary analyses of culture, politics, techno-science, and psychology insist on this. They often suggest remedies for it, or ways to capitalize on it. Yet they almost never investigate the meaning and history of distraction itself. This book corrects this lack of attention. It inquires into the effects of distraction, defined not as the opposite of attention, but as truly discontinuous intellect. Human being has to be reconceived, according to this argument, not as quintessentially thought-bearing, but as subject to repeated, causeless blackouts of mind.


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Politiques de la distraction
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ISBN: 9782378961602 237896160X 2840164736 Year: 2021 Publisher: Dijon: Les presses du réel,

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Notion souvent dévalorisée ou fustigée, la distraction renvoie autant à certaines modalités de l'attention (flottante, incidente, mobile...) qu'aux formes sensibles associées à la culture de masse. La distraction est plus ambivalente que sa dénonciation ou sa synonymie avec le terme de divertissement ne le laissent supposer. Tandis que ce dernier pourrait ne renvoyer qu'au fait de se détourner d'une chose, de faire diversion, la distraction relève plutôt d'un conflit d'attractions.En résulte une double orientation des recherches qui composent cet ouvrage, où l'examen local d'états de coexistence entre perception distraite et capacité attentionnelle voisine avec des réflexions sur les influences réciproques entre le domaine des arts et la société du spectacle. Cette notion de distraction qui se dédouble en deux branches est également clivée, entre émancipation et aliénation, tant dans ses pratiques que dans ses productions.Les réflexions rassemblées ici interrogent la façon dont la distraction cristallise certaines interrogations du présent, celles d'un monde qui se numérise et dont les tensions politiques vont croissant. On peut ainsi paradoxalement penser la distraction à la fois comme le stigmate de nos sociétés et comme son antidote. Elle connaît dans ce recueil un sort fidèle à son étymologie, elle est "tirée en divers sens" dans une variété d'interprétations et d'expériences où sa parade se manifeste de manière inattendue et fend les idées reçues.

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