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On The Moral Economy of Attention

Affordances, Virtue, and the World We See

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Richard L. Johnson
Aug 23, 2025
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil

The Room Is Never Neutral

Walk into a room. For some, it is bare walls and empty space. For the carpenter, those walls are surfaces: to be planed, joined, supported. For the musician, the room is acoustics, reverberation, silence or resonance. For the child, it is a playground: places …

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