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Author:   Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.403kg
ISBN:  

9781032423203

ISBN 10:   103242320
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   27 December 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction The Attention Economy A Relatively Recent Category An Ethical Apparatus Attention to the Ordinary Turning towards Literature Chapter 1: Social Invisibilities Refugee Tales Showing Ghosting Caring Raging Exploring the Closet Visibilities Shifting Perceptions Ending with a Whimper Wandering with Intent Investigating the Ordinary What Matters Chapter 2: Embedded Visibilities Seeing the Land Observing What Is Lost The Anti-Pastoral Relationalities Inventorying On the Same Spectrum Collecting the Mundane Perceptual Realism Consideration(s) Discordant Scales Echoes and Portents Acknowledging the Anthropocene Inescapable Entanglements Chapter 3: Of (Wo)men and Machines The Time Will Come… A Time Out of Joint Machines That Mimic Minds? Quandaries Beyond Exceptionalism? Artificial Perception 1. An Unwonted Focus 2. AI Vulnerability 3. Machine Vigilance Chapter 4: Disabled Brains Linguistic Impairment Varying Attentional Tides Perceptual Immediacy An ""Ethics from Down Under"" Autobiography and Cognitive Disability Doubles Oscillations Relationality über alles Conclusion References Index

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Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 (France) and a member of the Academia Europaea. He is the editor of the journal Études britanniques contemporaines. He is the author of four monographs: David Lodge: le choix de l’éloquence (2001), Peter Ackroyd et la musique du passé (2008) and The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Literature (2015), The Aesthetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative (Routledge 2023). He has published extensively on contemporary British fiction, with a special interest in the ethics of affects trauma criticism and theory, and the ethics of vulnerability, in France and abroad (other European countries, the United States), in the form of chapters in edited volumes or articles in such journals as Miscelánea, Anglia, Symbolism, The Cambridge Quarterly, and so on.

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