{"id":1878,"date":"2024-02-01T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T03:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2024-02-01T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T03:46:09","slug":"spring-humanities-colloquium-attention-and-the-infinite-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/2024\/02\/01\/spring-humanities-colloquium-attention-and-the-infinite-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Humanities Colloquium: &#8220;Attention and the Infinite Mirror&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: 12.0pt\"><strong>Thursday, Feb. 8, 1:00pm &#8211; 2:00pm, Beck Rooms, Walsh Library<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaker: D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">What is \u201cattention\u201d? How has the understanding of human attention change over time? In what ways have shifting technologies, and changing concepts of personhood, affected our attentional capacities and the role assigned to attention and distraction in key cultural arenas?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">In this presentation, the historian of science D. Graham Burnett will discuss his research into laboratory investigations of attention since 1880, and invite reflection on the contemporary challenges raised by the intense \u201ccommodification\u201d of human attention in the last decades. In what ways can we resist this industrial-scale \u201cfracking\u201d of human beings?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">D. Graham Burnett is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and the History of Science at Princeton University, and the founding director of the Institute for Sustained Attention, a non-profit organization dedicated to research and activism that centers on human attentional capacities. He is an original member of the \u201cFriends of Attention\u201d coalition, and one of the co-creators of the \u201cStrother School of Radical Attention\u201d in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Burnett co-edited <em>Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses<\/em> (New York: <em>Columbia University Press<\/em>, <em>2023<\/em>) with the Paris-based philosopher, Justin E. H. Smith, and <em>Twelve Theses on Attention<\/em> (Princeton: <em>Princeton University Press, 2022<\/em>) with Stevie Knauss. In 2018, Burnett co-curated \u201cPractices of Attention\u201d for the 32nd S\u00e3o Paulo Biennial, and he is associated with the artist collective known as ESTAR(SER), with whom he co-curated <em>THE THIRD, MEANING<\/em> at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington, which ran from 2022 to 2023, and centered on attentional practices in the history of aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, Feb. 8, 1:00pm &#8211; 2:00pm, Beck Rooms, Walsh Library Speaker: D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University What is \u201cattention\u201d? How has the understanding of human attention change over time? In&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-faculty-opportunities","category-forthcoming-events"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerforfacultydevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}