Term
Intentionality
used in 45 texts across the archive
“I have argued previously for the priority of “attentionality” over “intentionality”—attention must precede intention, and “intention” individualizes what is “joint” in attention, making it more of a declarative than an ostensive concept. We can trace the emergence of intentionality from attentionality, whether by “intentionality” we mean the more philosophical notion of constituting an object or the more everyday use of the term as meaning to do something.”
In use
“Intentionality is not simply will, but the will to produce a certain effect, not out of “instinct” but as an at least potentially thematized reality.”
“Each layer of intentionality is a layer of deferral, and being able to say that maybe we can know or see allows us to add more layers.”
“Built into the notion of intentionality is some deep structure of the will; built into the notion of attention is something demanding attention and demanding you draw others’ draw others’ attention to, which involves configurating ourselves around something at the center.”
“This presence is a collective, centered presence, and not the phenomenological self-presence (in which my intentionality is fully “borne” by my utterances) Derrida deconstructs, but a presence nevertheless.”