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What Is the Difference Between Concentration and Distraction?
When the relationship between the erver and the artist becomes filtered by making art into a commodity, there are real consequences for both parties. The default state of subjectivity when consuming artful stories made up of moving images and sounds is to be in a constant state of distraction. Benami describes the difference between concentration and distraction. A man who concentrates before a work of art is absorbed by it. He enters into this work of art the way legend tells of the chinese painter when he viewed his finished painting. In contrast, the distracted mass absorbs the work of art. This is most obvious with gard to buildings. Architecture has always represented the prototype of a work ofArt which is consumm