Senior Lecturer, History and Theory of Digital Media, King’s College London
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Hy Hirsh. Divertissement Rococo,1951. Frame enlargements from 16 mm color film with sound, produced with an oscilloscope. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive, Hollywood, California.
Cigarettes, cycling, gawking, gandering, and imbibing. These are a few of the forms of distraction or "distributed attention" that Petra Loeffler--a film and media scholar currently teaching media philosophy at Bauahus University -- discusses with us in this episode. Drawing examples from her recent book Distributed Attention: A Media History of Distraction, Dr.
