Moments In Flow

Tag: attention

  • In Defense of the Player: Desire, Display, and the Engine of Culture

    The Engine Nobody Wants to Name Let’s start with the thing everyone knows and nobody says. The engine of culture—not the whole engine, but the part that produces the new, the strange, the beautiful, the useful—is male display. It is men performing for the attention of women. Not exclusively. Not universally. But overwhelmingly, across history,…

  • The Attention–Meaning Feedback Loop Problem

    A recurring pattern has emerged in modern information systems. An event occurs, becomes visible almost instantly, and is then interpreted with an unnerving confidence, as if the system has already reached a verdict before the relevant information has been fully processed. That interpretation then feeds back into what receives attention next. The result is not…