The 2004 diagnosis that deep single-object attention is dying under movies, TV, and the internet — EUP's attention…
echoes
From: DFW in conversation with David Kipen — City Arts & Lectures, San Francisco (June 17, 2004)
- Early text:
[scene] Wallace argues literary fiction is, like poetry,
dying a little as a cultural force — demographically and commercially, not
artistically — because screen media are changing how people apportion
aesthetic attention; quiet-room immersion in one thing for a long time
will become alien to nearly everyone without hard training; fewer people
are interested each year [00:13:25–00:14:38]
- IJ echo: EUP's television-attention argument and its IJ execution
(e-unibus-pluram; the Entertainment as terminal
attention capture)
- Weight: shared-preoccupation