Concept
attention
2 writings
- dread is attention that cannot find its buttress Dread is the somatic registration of a withdrawing structural support before the failure is visible; the essay uses the Gothic flying buttress to link this to the distinction between culture as buttressed translation and evolution as unbuttressed drift.
- stone as feedback completed Stone embodies feedback in its completed state — the permanent record of every accumulated force. Attending to it trains a non-instrumental attention that sustains itself without response, a capacity transferable to perceiving gradual, silent degradation in living systems.