#floating attention

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

We can draw closer to mysticism if we think obliquely, autobiographically, vernacularly, performatively, practically, erotically, and ascetically. Mysticism is a singular form of floating attention—what I call passive activity or active passivity. It is necessary to mobilize simultaneously all seven adverbs if we are to glean mysticism’s meaning, its core, its magma: love.

Mysticism by Simon Critchley

[eressea-nyarwe]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71PB_Rulk5M)