Resources

Participants’ Writings on Relevant Topics

Armstrong, Paul B. “Neuroscience, Narrative and Narratology.” Poetics Today 40.3 (2019): 395-428.Download

Fazi, M. Beatrice. “Distraction Machines? Augmentation, Automation and Attention in a Computational Age.” New Formations 98 (2020): 85-100.

Levin, Yael, ‘‘Beckett’s Path of Least Resistance: Attention, Distraction, Drift.” Estudios Irlandeses: Journal of Irish Studies [Online], (14.2), (2019): 38-51. Web. 21 November, 2019.

Liska, Vivian. “Walter Benjamin’s Dialectics of Attentiveness.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 65:1 (2011): 16-24.Download

Van Hulle, Dirk. “The Extended Mind And Multiple Drafts: Beckett’s Models of the Mind and the Postcognitivist Paradigm.” Early Modern Beckett: Beckett Between. Eds. Angela B. Moorjani, Danièle de Ruyter, Dúnlaith Bird and Sjef Houppermans. Amsterdam: Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. 277-289.

Other Resources

Alford, Lucy. Forms of Poetic Attention. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.

Bennett, Alice. Contemporary Fictions of Attention: Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century. London: Bloombsury Academic, 2018.

Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Illuminations. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 1969.

Citton, Yves. The Ecology of Attention. [2014] Trans. Barnaby Norman. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017.

Cutting, James E., et al. “Attention and the Evolution of Hollywood Film.” Psychological Science, vol. 21, no. 3, 2010, pp. 432–439. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41062226. Accessed 18 Jan. 2020.

Christensen, Susie. “‘What a Weathercock of Sensibility I Am!’: Sensory Self-Observation in the Diaries of Virginia Woolf and ‘A Human Experiment in Nerve Division’ by Henry Head and W. H. R. Rivers.” Textual Practice, vol. 29, no. 6, Oct. 2015, pp. 1117–1142. 

Crary, Jonathan. Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1975.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper and Row, 1990.

Duttlinger, Carolin. “Between Contemplation and Distraction: Configurations of Attention in Walter Benjamin.” German Studies Review, vol. 30, no. 1, 2007, pp. 33–54. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27668212.

Epstein, Andrew. Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Hayles, N. Katherine. “Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes” Download

James, William. The Principles of Psychology. New York: Henry Holt, 1918.

Kallay, Katalin, The Arts of Attention. Budapest: Harmattan Hongrie, 2017.

Kracauer, Siegfried “Cult of Distraction: On Berlin’s Picture Movies”Download

Fusco, Katherine. “Squashing the Bookworm: Manly Attention and Male Reading in Silent Film.” Modernism/Modernity, vol. 22, no. 4, Nov. 2015, pp. 627–650. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mlf&AN=2016391481.

Lewis, Tyson, E. “The Art of Straying: Benjamin on Distraction and the Informal Education of the City.” Educational Theory 69.2 (2019): 169-183 .

Lyotard, Jean-François. Driftworks Trans. Roger McKeon. New York: Semiotext(e), 1984.

Nordau, Max. Degeneration. London: William Heinemann, 1898.

North, Paul. The Problem of Distraction. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Phillips, Natalie M. Distraction: Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

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