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Comment on Tiziana Terranova – The Bios of Attention by #pdlt : L’attention, une valeur culturelle et sociale | Site internet Bordeaux

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:01:13 +0000

[...] lecture de la semaine, il s’agit de notes prises à partir d’une intervention Tiziana Terranova, qui enseigne les media studies à [...]

Comment on Bernard Stiegler: Pharmacology of Attention and Relational Ecology by Bernard Stiegler: Pharmacology of Attention and Relational Ecology by Sam Kinsley

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:43:47 +0000

[...] Bernard Stiegler: Pharmacology of Attention and Relational Ecology [...]

Comment on Poster > Internet and political transformation in Turkey by Paying attention: when a (kind of) hacker meets sociologists | Stop

Paying attention: when a (kind of) hacker meets sociologists | Stop — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:33:13 +0000

[...] Imren Borsuk gave an interesting summary of the influence of the Internet on political discourse in Turkey. [...]

Comment on Tiziana Terranova – The Bios of Attention by Paying attention: when a (kind of) hacker meets sociologists | Stop

Paying attention: when a (kind of) hacker meets sociologists | Stop — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:30:47 +0000

[...] Tiziana Terranova talked about plasticity of the brain and of how it learns by imitation, reacting to, and mirroring, external environment and stimuli. What’s this got to do with software? Well, just the fact that new tools, media and software-induced habits from multi-tasking to casual browsing can rewire the neurological pathways of the brain. From the point of view of a “Free-as-in-freedom” software advocate, you could hardly find better justifications that software interfaces must be as diverse and flexible (as in “modifiable by everybody”) as possible. If there were only one operating system and user interface around, all brains would be stimulated by them in one and only one way, which can’t possibly be a good thing. [...]

Comment on Session 11: Online Sociality and Technicity by The Art of Surveillance in Pervasive Gaming | digitaldust

The Art of Surveillance in Pervasive Gaming | digitaldust — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:10:10 +0000

[...] the presentation from the Paying Attention Conference back in September. Sam Kinsley has a great summary of the talk itself, which will mutate into a more complete paper, as well as probably a section of the PhD. [...]

Comment on The technics of attention by Jon Dovey

Jon Dovey — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:18:03 +0000

This is useful – I think I’d like to conduct a conversation about this version of technicity with previous work undertaken not only by Patrick Crogan but also by Helen Kennedy, Seth Giddings and myself. The aim would be to think about differential technicities and power. In particular there’s something curiously static in this account of technicity – a flat terra nullius waiting to be ‘industrially discretable, reproducible, standardisable, calculable and controllable by automata.’ But Helen Kennedy & I have argued elsewhere that different kinds of technicities do different kinds of work for different orders of power system – see http://www.dcrc.org.uk/sites/default/files/technicities-keynote_dovey_0.pdf. Maybe we should make this conversation part of our forthcoming seminar series ?

Comment on The technics of attention by Sam Kinsley

Sam Kinsley — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:16:53 +0000

The technics of attention – thinking about the attention economy through Stiegler’s philosophy of technology…

In a final post about the ESF sponsored conference, Paying Attention, held by DCRC in September, I have recently written about the concept of technicity in relation to the capacity for attention. What follows is the text from that post, I hope it is o….

Comment on Tiziana Terranova – The Bios of Attention by The technics of attention - thinking about the attention economy through Stiegler’s philosophy of technology « Sam Kinsley

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:14:24 +0000

[...] Tiziana Terranova, in her paper ‘The bios of attention’, offered an expert introduction to the biological/physiological foundations of attention and the bio-politics of its constitution as a commodity. For Terranova, the question is “how to re-conceptualise our understanding of attention as productive power in such a way as to subtract it from [a] reductive economicism”. We can thus understand attention as a capacity formed from technicity. Attention, therefore, is ‘the process by which value is produced as insperable from the production of subjectivity – that is from the invention and diffusion of common desires, beliefs and affects’. Attention must accordingly be seen as a relational product of the socio-technical milieu. [...]

Comment on Session 7: Theories of Attention and Economy (2) by The technics of attention - thinking about the attention economy through Stiegler’s philosophy of technology « Sam Kinsley

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:14:08 +0000

[...] with technics, or, as Stiegler calls it, inorganic organised matter”. Conference speaker Ben Roberts has suggested in previous work: ‘the exteriorisation of the human into technics–writing [...]

Comment on Tiziana Terranova – The Bios of Attention by The technics of attention | Paying Attention

The technics of attention | Paying Attention — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:39:55 +0000