Term
Shared Attention
used in 46 texts across the archive
“In shared, or joint attention, is the fundamental equality that constitutes the human. All the resources we need for thinking about ethics lie in joint attention, in our ability to point to something, and approaching ethics in this way might enable use to create more minimal, more pared down, ethical vocabularies.”
In use
“Indeed, the center must be marked first of all, insofar as the participants in the event attend from the sign/gesture to the object; but the effect of this shared attention is to have everyone attend from the object as sacred to each and every one’s profane desire for the object, culminating in the regulated sparagmos.”
“It is this first example of joint shared attention that is the beginning of human language.”
“There are two ways shared attention can be interrupted: first, through some kind of distraction; second, through some kind of fixation.”