“Whatever manifests itself has the shape of an ‘I‘”

An Argument about Attention and Empathy

Preparation for a talk I am giving tomorrow has kept me from writing an original Substack post. I thought about simply skipping this week, but instead decided to share here some of what I have written for this other purpose. The tenor and wit of it are attuned to the disciplinary norms and expectations of its intended audience, which are not exactly the…