6 Attention, Technology, and Creativity

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: Thinking Attention 1
4. I HISTORIES OF ATTENTION
5. 1 The Discovery of Attention 23
6. 2 Attention and Boredom in Early American Psychology 44
7. 3 Paying Attention to the Birds: Ornithologists and Listening 63
8. 4 Attention, Art, and Psychotherapeutics 81
9. II PHILOSOPHIES OF ATTENTION
10. 5 Attention: Mechanism and Virtue 103
11. 6 Attention, Technology, and Creativity 124
12. 7 Attending to Absence, and the Role of the Imagination 142
13. 8 Dispatch from the Jhāna Wars: Attention Practice in Online Buddhism 160
14. III ATTENTION, TECHNOLOGY, AND CULTURE
15. 9 Wearable Attention: Course Corrections for Wandering Minds 187
16. 10 Attentional “Ownership”: Online Education and Self-Possession 212
17. 11 Attention Is All You Need: Humans and Computers in the Time of Neural Networks 230
18. 12 Medium Focus 249
19. IV ENDGAME(S)
20. 13 Attention Fast, Attention Slow: Obsession, Compulsion, and Holding Close 275
21. 14 Units of Intensive Care: Poetic Attention and the Precarious Body 291
22. Bibliography 317
23. List of Contributors 343
24. Index 349