The Problem of Distraction

Joyce Burgmann - - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 17 3: Is Ethics Consultation an Elegant Distraction? Moreno - - HEC Forum 8 1: Distraction and Santayana's Idea of Progress.

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Attraction, Distraction and Action: Multiple Perspectives on Attentional Capture. Report on Analysis "Problem" No. Ryle - - Analysis 14 3: Hartnack - - Analysis 14 3: McCloskey - - Analysis 14 3: Wheeldon - - Analysis 14 3: For this reason, North begins by distancing the common understanding of the word, rooted in its "marked" opposition with attention, from what he refers to as "primal distraction": As North asks, "How would distraction appear if it were released from its subordination to attention, to perception, to the subject?

North's answer to this question entails a return to a problem which haunted Aristotle's metaphysics and was subsequently banished from Ancient Greek thought, namely the possibility of "not-always-thinking," to me aei noein , the periodic non-thought which interrupts cogitation.

The challenge facing North's project is thus to "produce a genealogy of not-always-thinking" 9 , which captures its periodic resurfacing in the wake of Aristotle without recourse to a reified "history of the history of thought," or what Gilles Deleuze called "images of thought. The predominant figures of this constellation include Franz Kafka in fiction, Martin Heidegger in philosophy, and Walter Benjamin in cultural criticism, each of whom made distraction Zerstreuung central to their writing.

What sets the work of these figures apart for North is that it concerns itself with "deformation, disintegration, and ceasing to be" 15 , and hence a "tendency toward not-thinking and a release from being" ibid.

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