Concentration.

[Place of publication not identified] : Fiktion, 2015.

1 online resource

"In this anthology, edited by Fiktion's cofounder Ingo Niermann, nineteen writers and researchers address a fiercely contested commodity in digital society: concentration. Ingeborg Harms, Quinn Latimer, Arthur Jacobs, and Raoul Schrott write about the circumstances under which a text or activity can completely draw us into its spell, Dirk Baecker and Amy Patton about a shifting concentration, Jenna Sutela and Elvia Wilk about one that carries us into the spherical, Charis Conn about concentration violently induced; Nina Bußmann writes about the uncertainty as to whether she is currently concentrating or distracting herself; Sophie Jung, Emily Segal, and Alexander Tarakhovsky make attention deficit disorder their subject; Kenneth Goldsmith argues that the artistic and literary avantgarde stem precisely from distraction; Jacob Wren wonders if a concentration that omits all else is not the exact reason why our world is in such a terrible state; Johannes Thumfart looks at the relationship between concentration of the mind and on the digital market; Boris Groys observes a defictionalization of literature through the Internet, while Ronny Vuine and Ingo Niermann make speculative - i.e. decidedly fictive - literature the ongoing or recurring dominant medium of social change. The German contributions have been translated into English by Nathaniel McBride and Amy Patton."-- provided by distributor.

Art and literature.
Art et littérature.

Discursive works.
Collections

Arbutina, Vela, contributor.
Baecker, Dirk, contributor.
Bußmann, Nina, contributor.
Conn, Charis, contributor.
Edmonson, Tess, proofreader.
Gallus, Henriette, contributor.
Gatza, Mathias, contributor, editor.
Goldsmith, Kenneth, contributor.
Groĭs, Boris, contributor.
Harms, Ingeborg, contributor.
Jacobs, Arthur, contributor.
Jung, Sophie, contributor.
Latimer, Quinn, contributor.
McBride, Nathaniel, translator.
Niermann, Ingo, editor, contributor.
Patton, Amy, contributor, translator.
Schrott, Raoul, contributor.
Scrimgeour, Alexander, editor.
Segal, Emily, contributor.
Stoff, Julia, contributor.
Sutela, Jenna, contributor.
Tarakhovsky, Alexander, contributor.
Thumfart, Johannes, contributor.
Vuine, Ronnie, contributor.
Wilk, Elvia, contributor.
Wren, Jacob, contributor.
Library Stack, distributor.
Library Stack.