Increasingly, immersive reflection is being displaced by an entirely different form of attention: hyperattention.
A rash change of focus between different tasks, sources of information, and processes, characterizes this scattered mode of awareness.
Since it also has a low tolerance for boredom, it does
not admit the profound idleness that benefits the creative process.
Implacably, Han argues that the minimum condition
for true love is possessing sufficient courage to accept
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self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. At the
same time, he provides an intensive survey of all the traps
set for, and attacks perpetrated on, the very possibility of
eros in a world that, as it stands, cares only for agreement,
agreeability, and narcissistic gratification.