Body and Time. Bodily Rhythms and the Social Synchronism in the Information Age, ed. by Bianca Maria Pirani, Thomas A. Smith, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 8-20., 2013
With the rise of the modern industrial society distraction was no longer considered as a disabili... more With the rise of the modern industrial society distraction was no longer considered as a disability in opposition to the mental faculty of attention. According to the philosopher Immanuel Kant distraction has become a necessity and even an art of living regarding the body’s need for regeneration. Life sciences have investigated how a balance between work and leisure, stress and relaxation is to be reached. The article reconstructs a genealogy of distraction, focuses on its importance especially for what Michel Foucault has called taking care of oneself, and by this way shows how distraction has become normalized.
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establish an order of the coexisting. In them,
forces of dispersion come into effect that form
positional relationships and neighborhoods.
In line with the philosophical concept of relational
space, the paper sketches a media ecology
of coexistence, of the simultaneous juxtaposition
of the scattered, and envisages an
ethics and aesthetics of distribution. Starting
with Martin Heidegger’s ontological postulate
of an »original dispersion of existence« and its
post-structuralist and philosophical critique,
various concepts of relational spaces and regimes
of dispersion are discussed.
establish an order of the coexisting. In them,
forces of dispersion come into effect that form
positional relationships and neighborhoods.
In line with the philosophical concept of relational
space, the paper sketches a media ecology
of coexistence, of the simultaneous juxtaposition
of the scattered, and envisages an
ethics and aesthetics of distribution. Starting
with Martin Heidegger’s ontological postulate
of an »original dispersion of existence« and its
post-structuralist and philosophical critique,
various concepts of relational spaces and regimes
of dispersion are discussed.
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