Visual culture's remaking of attention
 

Crary, by his own admission, is less concerned with specific, "delimited" capitalist products (movies, television programs, pieces of music) and their ability to capture attentiveness, and more concerned with "the remaking of attention into repetitive operations and responses that always overlap with acts of looking and listening" (52)
 
Also 52: "Visual and auditory 'content' is most often ephemeral, interchangeable material that, in addition to its commodity status, circulates to habituate and validate one's immersion in the exigencies of twenty-first-century capitalism."

> from Jonathan Crary's 24/7: Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep (2013)

> tagged with #visual_culture, #attention, #capitalism, #culture

> created September 30, 2025 at 7:55:19 PM


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