attention Archives - INCITE Magazine https://incite.alia.org.au/tag/attention/ The magazine for the library and information sector Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:51:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://incite.alia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cropped-logo-32x32.png attention Archives - INCITE Magazine https://incite.alia.org.au/tag/attention/ 32 32 The Conditions of Attention https://incite.alia.org.au/the-conditions-of-attention/ https://incite.alia.org.au/the-conditions-of-attention/#respond Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:48:20 +0000 https://incite.alia.org.au/?p=2634 The reading spaces I facilitate are intentionally quiet. Stories are read aloud slowly, with spacious pauses between them. There is no requirement to respond, analyse or extract meaning. Participants are invited to listen and to remain with the stories themselves. What interests me afterwards is not only the reading itself, but what the experience reveals about attention and the conditions that allow it to settle.

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