The

The Intuitionist
Intuitionist
The Intuitionist
assembled attention
attention assembled
 embodied &
Economic &
Fuck
attention

“She doesn’t know what

to do with her eyes” (1).

whitehead
 embodied &
Intuitive &
nonhuman
attention

“Even with her eyes closed

she could have done it
herself, but she’s trying to
concentrate on the
vibrations massaging her
back” (6).

whitehead
 embodied &
Racialized &
Fuck
attention

“Blood agrees, it cannot

help but agree, and how
can you get any perspective
on that? Blood is destiny in
this land, and she did not
choose Intuitionism, as she
formerly believed. It chose
her” (151).

whitehead
 Racialized &
Political &
embodied
attention

“Because her father taught

her that white folks can
turn on you at any moment
[…] They can turn rabid at
any second” (23).

whitehead
 Racialized &
Political &
embodied
attention

“The colored man passing for

white and the innocent elevator
must rely on luck, the
convenience of empty streets
and strangers who know
nothing, dread the chance
encounter with the one who
know who they are. The one
who knows their
weakness” (23).

whitehead
 Racialized &
Urban &
political
attention

“It’s a two minute walk from

the office. With that zero-
point as reference, she can
predict just how much
suspicion, curiosity and
anger she will rouse in her
cases” (4).

whitehead
 urbanized &
political &
nonhuman
attention

“The internecine system of

one-way streets and
prohibited U-turns makes
retreat a difficult enterprise.
This is on purpose” (17).

whitehead
 urbanized &
Nonhuman &
political
attention

“The traffic lights are

unforgiving at this time of
night, mysterious and
capricious, as if appalled
by this latest indignity of
citizens and their vehicles.
Traffic lights, the
quintessential civil
servants.” (75).

whitehead
 nonhuman &
embodied &
fuck
attention

“The moon lets him know.

The moon’s light picks up
the movement of the
branches and places it on
the wall of his room, and
he watches the shadows
shake and threaten
him” (135).

whitehead
 nonhuman &
fuck &
storied
attention

“In its own way, it

prepares them” (255).

whitehead
 fuck &
nonhuman &
storied
attention

“They won’t find any reason

for this crash, trace the
serial number back to the
manufacturer, interrogate an
arthritic mechanic’s
trembling fingers. This was a
catastrophic accident” (228).

whitehead
 fuck &
storied &
embodied
attention

“Let them find their

own way through
this labyrinth” (160).

whitehead
 fuck &
political &
Networked
attention

“Within such systems,

errors and contingencies
may, at decisive cusp
points, tip the system one
way or another so that the
assemblage begins to
operate in new and
unanticipated modes” (197).

Hayles
 political &
Networked &
nonhuman
attention

“When everything is
connected, with everything
being influenced by and
influencing everything else,
transforming elevator
technology can potentially
transform culture and
society” (192).

Hayles
 political &
Networked &
storied
attention

“The interpretation advanced

here thus shows how the notion
of a cognitive assemblage may
be extended to include not only
other technical devices but also
overtly political concerns such
as racism, gender
discrimination, urban
infrastructural design, and
institutional politics” (185).

Hayles
 What’s Left
for/of
attention

“Through these, the novel shows

how the systems making up a
cognitive assemblage form
connections, create linkages
between disparate phenomena,
facilitate or block information
flows between sites, make choices
at multiple levels of human and
technical cognitions, and morph
as the assemblage gains or loses
parts and undergoes systemic
transformations in its
dynamics” (178).

Hayles
 What’s Left
for/of
attention

“A joke has no purpose if you

cannot share it with anyone.
Lila Mae thinks, Intuitionism
is communication. That
simple. Communication with
what is not-you” (241).

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