Introduction, by D. Graham Burnett and Justin E. H. Smith
Part I. Histories of Attention
1. The Discovery of Attention, by Richard J. Spiegel
2. Attention and Boredom in Early American Psychology, by Henry M. Cowles
3. Attending to the Birds: Ornithologists and Listening, by Alexandra Hui
4. Attention, Art, and Psychotherapeutics, by Julian Chehirian
Part II. Philosophies of Attention
5. Attention: Mechanism and Virtue, by Carlos Montemayor
6. Attention, Technology, and Creativity, by Carolyn Dicey Jennings and Shadab Tabatabaeian
7. Attention to Absence and Imagination, by Jonardon Ganeri
8. Dispatch from the Jhna Wars: Attention Practice in Online Buddhism, by John Tresch
Part III. Attention, Technology, Culture
9. Wearable Attention: Course-Correction for Wandering Minds, by Natasha Dow Schüll
10. Attentional 'Ownership': Online Education and Self-Possession, by Brian Yuan
11. Attention is All You Need: Humans and Computers in the Time of Neural Networks
Nick Seaver
12. Medium Focus, by Joanna Fiduccia
Part IV. Endgame(s)
13. Attention Fast, Attention Slow: Obsession, Compulsion, Holding Close, by Yael Geller
14. Units of Intensive Care: Poetic Attention and the Precarious Body, by Lucy Alford
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index