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Attention : Dispatches from a Land of Distraction.

By: Cohen, JoshuaMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (392 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781910695753Subject(s): Civilization, Modern-21st centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: AttentionDDC classification: 814.6 LOC classification: CB430 | .C644 2018Online resources: Click to View
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Intro -- PRAISE -- TITLE PAGE -- EPIGRAPH -- CONTENTS -- DISTRACTION -- I. HOME -- IT'S A CIRCLE: ON THE CLOSING OF THE RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM &amp -- BAILY CIRCUS -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Groundhog Day Protests 2017 -- THE LAST LAST SUMMER: ON DONALD TRUMP AND THE FALL OF ATLANTIC CITY -- NOTES ON THE CONCESSION -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Lecture Review -- Memoir -- EXIT BERNIE -- FROM THE DIARIES -- New York Signs: Last Exist for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge -- New York Signs: Yield -- New York Signs: Siamese Connection -- New York Signs: LIRR -- New York Signs: R Trains Run Express -- New York Signs: Stop -- LETTER TO RUTH MAY RIVERS -- FIRST FAMILY, SECOND LIFE: ON THOMAS PYNCHON -- LETTERFORM, ISLANDFORM -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Meditations -- 9/11 BLUE -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Hat Lessons Gleaned from Attending a Film Noir Marathon with a Nonagenarian Ex-Milliner Who Never Stops Talking -- LETTER TO STEPHEN SHORE -- DOWNTOWN UNDERGROUND: ON JOHN ZORN -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Meditations from the Gym -- EDITING THE I: ON GORDON LISH -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Four Facts I Learned in a Bar on Staten Island -- A Successful Man in Chicago is Complimented on His Suit -- LIP SERVICE: ON ARETHA AND BEYONCÉ -- WIKI: WHAT I KNOW IS -- BOUNDLESS INFORMANT: ON GREENWALD'S SNOWDEN -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Salt and Pepper Shakers -- When We Stopped Saying We Were Going to Move Out of the City -- DATASEXUAL: ON MOROZOV, LANIER, JOHNSON AND GOOGLE -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Navajo Reservation -- Medium Thoreau -- II. ABROAD -- WRITING ABOUT THE PRESENT: MIRROR, BODY, SHADOW -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Brows -- Freckles -- ZIBALDONE DIARY -- ŽIŽEK PRESS JUNKET -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Conversation Summary (Next Table) -- Why I've Never Had Sex in Hungary -- NO ONE HATES HIM MORE: ON FRANZEN'S KRAUS -- RECOGNIZED WITNESS: ON H.G. ADLER -- FROM THE DIARIES.
What Kind of Neighborhood is Palilula (Belgrade) -- The Hague -- CONDUCTING MORTALITY: ON HENRY-LOUIS DE LA GRANGE'S MAHLER -- FENCING FOR HITLER: ON HELENE MAYER -- SPEAK EASY: ON BOHUMIL HRABAL -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Museum Fact (Rijeka) -- Critical Typo -- HUNG LIKE AN OBELISK, HARD AS AN OLYMPIAN: AN ABECEDARIUM OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PUBLISHING IN PARIS -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Sounds of Odessa -- Sights of Odessa -- Odessa Fashion -- Odessa at Work -- Odessa Geography -- London Stumble -- POND MEMORIES: ON GEORGES PEREC -- AUTO-FLÂNEURISM: ON TOM MCCARTHY -- FROM THE DIARIES -- The Only Caravaggio in Russia -- My Friend's Estimation of his Grandfather, a Forgotten Hungarian Painter -- THE DEATH OF CULTURE, AND OTHER HYPOCRISIES: ON MARIO VARGAS LLOSA -- ALL FOISON, ALL ABUNDANCE: ON FLORIO'S MONTAIGNE AND SHAKESPEARE'S FLORIO -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Sentence from an English Language Workbook Found in Sofia -- A Phrase that Must Be, but Is Not, Originally Yiddish -- INNER SYNTAX: ON EIMEAR MCBRIDE -- INADVERTENCE: ON ALAN TURING'S CENTENNIAL -- HER OWN ASYLUM: ON ANNA KAVAN -- FROM THE DIARIES -- American Woman Complimented by Greek Man -- Bucharest Hostel -- BIBLIOTHANATOS, OR EPIGRAPHS FOR A LAST BOOK -- III. DREAMLANDS -- OPEN SESAME -- ME, U, BAKU, QUBA -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Adoration of New Magi -- Le Pont Mirabeau -- ON THE TRANSIT OF TOLEDO -- IN PARTIAL DISGRACE: ON CHARLES NEWMAN -- FROM THE DIARIES -- A Certain Angle -- The Mind Too -- A -- Posterity -- REORIENTALISM: ON MATHIAS ÉNARD -- THE LITERATURE OF TWO EASTS -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Traveling -- ISRAEL DIARY -- LINES OF OCCUPATION: ON YITZHAK LAOR -- FROM THE DIARIES -- To Think -- Traveling Without You -- LITERARY ANIMALS -- TOP TEN BOOKS ABOUT ONLINE -- FROM THE DIARIES -- What's in the Bag? -- Overnight Flight WC -- Shooting -- IMPROMPTU FANTASIAS: ON BENJAMIN DE CASSERES.
PARAGRAPH FOR LIU XIAOBO -- FROM THE DIARIES -- There Should be Words for the Following in German -- Germany to Jersey for the Holidays -- THOUGHTS ON THE ROTHS AND THEIR KADDISH -- DREAM TRANSLATIONS FROM THE EARLY HASIDIC -- ATTENTION! A (SHORT) HISTORY -- INATTENTION -- 2. DIRECTIONALITY, SUMER, BABEL AND THE FLOOD, EDEN -- C. EGYPT, CADMUS/KADMOS, MEMORY, ORPHEUS TURNING -- 4. TENSION, ASCETICISM, AUGUSTINE, AUGUSTINE IDIPSUM -- E. DISARTICULATION AND ARTICULATION, PAPER AND INK AND IMPLEMENTS, COPYING, COPYING (WRITING 1) -- 6. SCHISMS, DIVISIONS, MONADS, SPECIES -- G. MALEBRANCHE, VITALITY, AUTOMATA, CONDILLAC -- 8. THEATER, THE DIALECTIC (OF THE INDIVIDUAL), THE FICTION (OF SELFHOOD), TYPES OF TYPES -- I. DOUBLES, LAVATER, REDOUBLED DOUBLES, MAREY -- 10. DUCTUS INTERRUPTUS, TYPE-WRITE AND TYPEWRITE, WAVE-PARTICLE THEORY OF LANGUAGE, REACTION TIME (WRITING B) -- K. CASE STUDIES 1 -- 12. CASE STUDIES B -- M. BEHAVIORISM AND GESTALT, NEUROACADEMIA, CONSUMPTION V. PROSUMPTION, BUDDHISMS -- 14. TRANSITIVE/TRANSACTIONAL, SPEED, COMPUTERS ON SPEED, SURVEILLANCE DREAMING -- TEST -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- COPYRIGHT.
Summary: A wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and rule-bending selection of non-fiction from Joshua Cohen, 'a major American writer' (New York Times) - a powerful and fresh work of social criticism, examining the ways we can reclaim the power of attention in an age of constant distraction.
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Intro -- PRAISE -- TITLE PAGE -- EPIGRAPH -- CONTENTS -- DISTRACTION -- I. HOME -- IT'S A CIRCLE: ON THE CLOSING OF THE RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM &amp -- BAILY CIRCUS -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Groundhog Day Protests 2017 -- THE LAST LAST SUMMER: ON DONALD TRUMP AND THE FALL OF ATLANTIC CITY -- NOTES ON THE CONCESSION -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Lecture Review -- Memoir -- EXIT BERNIE -- FROM THE DIARIES -- New York Signs: Last Exist for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge -- New York Signs: Yield -- New York Signs: Siamese Connection -- New York Signs: LIRR -- New York Signs: R Trains Run Express -- New York Signs: Stop -- LETTER TO RUTH MAY RIVERS -- FIRST FAMILY, SECOND LIFE: ON THOMAS PYNCHON -- LETTERFORM, ISLANDFORM -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Meditations -- 9/11 BLUE -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Hat Lessons Gleaned from Attending a Film Noir Marathon with a Nonagenarian Ex-Milliner Who Never Stops Talking -- LETTER TO STEPHEN SHORE -- DOWNTOWN UNDERGROUND: ON JOHN ZORN -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Meditations from the Gym -- EDITING THE I: ON GORDON LISH -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Four Facts I Learned in a Bar on Staten Island -- A Successful Man in Chicago is Complimented on His Suit -- LIP SERVICE: ON ARETHA AND BEYONCÉ -- WIKI: WHAT I KNOW IS -- BOUNDLESS INFORMANT: ON GREENWALD'S SNOWDEN -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Salt and Pepper Shakers -- When We Stopped Saying We Were Going to Move Out of the City -- DATASEXUAL: ON MOROZOV, LANIER, JOHNSON AND GOOGLE -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Navajo Reservation -- Medium Thoreau -- II. ABROAD -- WRITING ABOUT THE PRESENT: MIRROR, BODY, SHADOW -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Brows -- Freckles -- ZIBALDONE DIARY -- ŽIŽEK PRESS JUNKET -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Conversation Summary (Next Table) -- Why I've Never Had Sex in Hungary -- NO ONE HATES HIM MORE: ON FRANZEN'S KRAUS -- RECOGNIZED WITNESS: ON H.G. ADLER -- FROM THE DIARIES.

What Kind of Neighborhood is Palilula (Belgrade) -- The Hague -- CONDUCTING MORTALITY: ON HENRY-LOUIS DE LA GRANGE'S MAHLER -- FENCING FOR HITLER: ON HELENE MAYER -- SPEAK EASY: ON BOHUMIL HRABAL -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Museum Fact (Rijeka) -- Critical Typo -- HUNG LIKE AN OBELISK, HARD AS AN OLYMPIAN: AN ABECEDARIUM OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PUBLISHING IN PARIS -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Sounds of Odessa -- Sights of Odessa -- Odessa Fashion -- Odessa at Work -- Odessa Geography -- London Stumble -- POND MEMORIES: ON GEORGES PEREC -- AUTO-FLÂNEURISM: ON TOM MCCARTHY -- FROM THE DIARIES -- The Only Caravaggio in Russia -- My Friend's Estimation of his Grandfather, a Forgotten Hungarian Painter -- THE DEATH OF CULTURE, AND OTHER HYPOCRISIES: ON MARIO VARGAS LLOSA -- ALL FOISON, ALL ABUNDANCE: ON FLORIO'S MONTAIGNE AND SHAKESPEARE'S FLORIO -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Sentence from an English Language Workbook Found in Sofia -- A Phrase that Must Be, but Is Not, Originally Yiddish -- INNER SYNTAX: ON EIMEAR MCBRIDE -- INADVERTENCE: ON ALAN TURING'S CENTENNIAL -- HER OWN ASYLUM: ON ANNA KAVAN -- FROM THE DIARIES -- American Woman Complimented by Greek Man -- Bucharest Hostel -- BIBLIOTHANATOS, OR EPIGRAPHS FOR A LAST BOOK -- III. DREAMLANDS -- OPEN SESAME -- ME, U, BAKU, QUBA -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Adoration of New Magi -- Le Pont Mirabeau -- ON THE TRANSIT OF TOLEDO -- IN PARTIAL DISGRACE: ON CHARLES NEWMAN -- FROM THE DIARIES -- A Certain Angle -- The Mind Too -- A -- Posterity -- REORIENTALISM: ON MATHIAS ÉNARD -- THE LITERATURE OF TWO EASTS -- FROM THE DIARIES -- Traveling -- ISRAEL DIARY -- LINES OF OCCUPATION: ON YITZHAK LAOR -- FROM THE DIARIES -- To Think -- Traveling Without You -- LITERARY ANIMALS -- TOP TEN BOOKS ABOUT ONLINE -- FROM THE DIARIES -- What's in the Bag? -- Overnight Flight WC -- Shooting -- IMPROMPTU FANTASIAS: ON BENJAMIN DE CASSERES.

PARAGRAPH FOR LIU XIAOBO -- FROM THE DIARIES -- There Should be Words for the Following in German -- Germany to Jersey for the Holidays -- THOUGHTS ON THE ROTHS AND THEIR KADDISH -- DREAM TRANSLATIONS FROM THE EARLY HASIDIC -- ATTENTION! A (SHORT) HISTORY -- INATTENTION -- 2. DIRECTIONALITY, SUMER, BABEL AND THE FLOOD, EDEN -- C. EGYPT, CADMUS/KADMOS, MEMORY, ORPHEUS TURNING -- 4. TENSION, ASCETICISM, AUGUSTINE, AUGUSTINE IDIPSUM -- E. DISARTICULATION AND ARTICULATION, PAPER AND INK AND IMPLEMENTS, COPYING, COPYING (WRITING 1) -- 6. SCHISMS, DIVISIONS, MONADS, SPECIES -- G. MALEBRANCHE, VITALITY, AUTOMATA, CONDILLAC -- 8. THEATER, THE DIALECTIC (OF THE INDIVIDUAL), THE FICTION (OF SELFHOOD), TYPES OF TYPES -- I. DOUBLES, LAVATER, REDOUBLED DOUBLES, MAREY -- 10. DUCTUS INTERRUPTUS, TYPE-WRITE AND TYPEWRITE, WAVE-PARTICLE THEORY OF LANGUAGE, REACTION TIME (WRITING B) -- K. CASE STUDIES 1 -- 12. CASE STUDIES B -- M. BEHAVIORISM AND GESTALT, NEUROACADEMIA, CONSUMPTION V. PROSUMPTION, BUDDHISMS -- 14. TRANSITIVE/TRANSACTIONAL, SPEED, COMPUTERS ON SPEED, SURVEILLANCE DREAMING -- TEST -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- COPYRIGHT.

A wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and rule-bending selection of non-fiction from Joshua Cohen, 'a major American writer' (New York Times) - a powerful and fresh work of social criticism, examining the ways we can reclaim the power of attention in an age of constant distraction.

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