Term
Attentional Space
used in 8 texts across the archive
“Note that the originary hypothesis accounts for the issuing of the first sign by constructing an attentional space that is first of all convergent, and therefore dangerous, and then becomes shared—in this way, we can see attention becoming intention without anyone actually intending for this to happen.”
In use
“Referring to something implicates one in an attentional space: you’re adding to the attentional “load” of something other have been, are, or might be talking about.”
“The disciplinary space joins the attentional space and works on making it disciplinary by making the relation between subject and object, between those with the desires and resentments and the reality resistant to it, itself the real object of study.”
“The ostensive sign, the attentional space it summons, can only be completed if supplemented by referring to what is missing in a way that would eventuate in someone supplying it.”