Discourse (2013) - Pathologistics of Attention

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• article: Pathologistics of Attention
• author(s): Jonathan Beller
• journal: Discourse (2013)
• issue: volume 35, issue 1, pages 46-71
• journal ISSN: 1522-5321
• publisher: Wayne State University Press
• keywords: "Hitchcock" - by François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Analysis, André Bazin, Automation, Bankruptcy, Capitalism, Cinematography, François Truffaut, Janet Leigh, Laura Mulvey, Logistics, New York City, New York, Pathological, Poststructuralism, Psycho (1960), Psychoanalysis, Psychological aspects, Psychology, Psychopathology, San Francisco, California, Saul Bass, Screen (1975) - Visual pleasure and narrative cinema

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Abstract

[...]this view of signifiers slipping off of no longer fully presentable signifieds in accord with new organizational principles (drives, fetishes, desires, etc.) could be stretched back into historical time to explain the need for hermeneutical analysis (Marxism, psychoanalysis) as well as the opening of the space (gap) that will give rise to and be ramified by modern literature, abstraction, and visual culture. [...]we begin a kind of archaeology of forms of attention-neuro-, psycho-, photo-, cinemático-, informático-, and capital-logical-that have both paved the way to and achieved a culmination of sorts in the capture of the cognitive-linguistic commons by life-destroying modalities for the organization of attention.