Attention is...
A meditation on attention, how it works, and what it is...phenomenologically What exactly is attention, anyway? I woke up this morning with the idea to make a blogpost entitled "Attention is", on what attention means to me. And here I am, doing it. Give me a prize. This Nicole, this my new body. No here miles on this here new body. *the intrusive thoughts* I feel like it's true, we live in an attention society. Attention is the currency by which we tokenize our affection for each other. When we watch someone's video, or linger on someone's photo or reel, we are effectively and affectively "giving them attention". But what can they do with this attention? They can neither use it to buy things, nor can they feel it physically, the same way I can feel someone's eyes on me when they are watching me in real life. They can feel it virtually in the form of likes, but most of the people who give a post attention or even a view do not actually like it (at le...