"Attention is Grace for the digital age, and the inclusion of anything in a text that has gotten attention ( a platform) is viewed as a new Saint’s artifact […] However, if you take a moment to divest yourself from this frame—that all attention endows an object, person, place, subject, etc, with an inalienable shimmer of the divine—and you pretend for a moment to be alive in, like, idk, 1955, you start to see that actually, it’s kind of a wild way to live your life."
https://blgtylr.substack.com/p/necessary-scenes
Erin Kissane /
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