“For minoritarian subjects, the discourse of attention has little relevance because it is structurally difficult to occupy the position of attentiveness, historically, we have always been the objects of others’ attention”
“Distraction is not opposed to attention but is a type of attention -it’s not individual and intrinsic but social and relational”
“medication seeks to treat biologically a set of behavioural and environmental conditions”
“greater collective happiness in all its wild plurality”
“This book … admits that it fiddles while Rome burns”
Disordered Attention, How We Look at Art and Performance Today, Claire Bishop (Verso)
