I’m writing a chapter on aesthetic attention & attachment & I am eye deep in Simone Weil. She’s always seductive and perplexing, but I especially like this coordination of the diminishment of liberal individualism—its inclinations to rationality, mastery, atomization—as a precondition for attentiveness and, ultimately, relation (and what I would call attachment): #attachment #SimoneWeil #aesthetics #envhum #reallyfuckingcoolideas