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thinking. For example, Crary describes the paradoxical relation between the concepts of attention and distraction. Although they seem mutually exclusive, Crary argues that attention and distraction actually lie on a continuum because paying attention to one thing necessarily means being distracted from others; thus one is always to some extent in both a state of attention and a state of distraction. Moreover, a state of attention often gives way to a state of distraction, `which we all know so well whenever we try to look at or listen to any one thing for too long ' (p. 47). The paradoxical nature of attention is also revealed in Crary's observation that attention, while providing the individual with a sense of freedom and control over experience, at the same time opens that individual to manipulation and control by a diversity of external techniques, including various forms of spectacle such as the pre-cinematic devices of the nineteenth century, or television and the Internet today. An art historian, Crary argues that the emerging discourse on attention in the late 1800s also `stands behind the astonishing burst of visual invention and experimentation in European art' during that

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Author

Emily Henderson

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0888-4080)

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)