Diagrammatic Attention

Abstract

Through a transcendental empiricism of perception, diagrammatic attention becomes available as an opaque (non)dialectical method for undoing binaries and reposing paradoxes within the material and intensive force, sense, and value of racial heteronormative capital. Each convolute is a node in an emergent and continuous diagram of different ecologies of attention, each with its own but resonant ‘emergent strategy.’ The main concerns throughout are the Hegelian problem of mediation and its relation to contemporary emancipatory politics, experimental modes of writing (about) affect (diagrammatic attention), the problem of revolutionary becoming, the relationship of the diagram to representation, the relationship of contemporary participatory art to racial capitalist financialisation, the historical and transcendental relations among ontological entanglement, embodied correspondence (resonance), and dialectical engulfment.