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Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
by Joshua Cohen
Jan. 17, 2023 - Jan. 24, 2023 (read, essay-collections)

Cohen, J. (2018). Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. Fitzcarraldo Editions.


Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018. 712 pages. Paperback. 9781910695746

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amanuensis »
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(noun) one employed to write from dictation or to…
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Manichaeism »
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an ancient religious movement that has to do with…
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divagation »
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strange
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oneiric »
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(adjective) of or relating to dreams; dreamy
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lacuna »
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an unfilled space; a gap (plural: lacunae)
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all sonar can detect is the past
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B.) YOU’RE THE CAPTAIN of an American destroyer e…
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whatever directs existence toward utility
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Technology, to Heidegger, is whatever directs exi…
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disseminations of a single consumer
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THE DOUBLE IS THE DUPLICATED SELF, the progenitor…
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literature conscious of its own literariness
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Instead, eighteenth-century literature was best c…
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if you're a writer, you translate yourself
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Distraction

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It’s a Circle: On the Closing of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

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It’s a Circle: On the Closing of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

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From the Diaries: Groundhog Day Protests 2017

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From the Diaries: Groundhog Day Protests 2017

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The Last Last Summer: On Donald Trump and the Fall of Atlantic City

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The Last Last Summer: On Donald Trump and the Fall of Atlantic City

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Notes on the Concession

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Notes on the Concession

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From the Diaries: Lecture Review; Memoir

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From the Diaries: Lecture Review; Memoir

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Exit Bernie

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Exit Bernie

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From the Diaries: New York Signs: Last Exit for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge; Yield; Siamese Connection; LIRR; R Trains Run Express; Stop

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From the Diaries: New York Signs: Last Exit for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge; Yield; Siamese Connection; LIRR; R Trains Run Express; Stop

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Letter to Ruth May Rivers

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Letter to Ruth May Rivers

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First Family, Second Life: On Thomas Pynchon

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First Family, Second Life: On Thomas Pynchon

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Letterform, Islandform

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Letterform, Islandform

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From the Diaries: Meditations

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From the Diaries: Meditations

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9/11 Blue

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9/11 Blue

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From the Diaries: Hat Lessons Gleaned from Attending a Film Noir Marathon with a Nonagenarian Ex-Milliner Who Never Stops Talking

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From the Diaries: Hat Lessons Gleaned from Attending a Film Noir Marathon with a Nonagenarian Ex-Milliner Who Never Stops Talking

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Letter to Stephen Shore

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Letter to Stephen Shore

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Downtown Underground: On John Zorn

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Downtown Underground: On John Zorn

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From the Diaries: Meditations from the Gym

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From the Diaries: Meditations from the Gym

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Editing the I: On Gordon Lish

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Editing the I: On Gordon Lish

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From the Diaries: Four Facts I Learned in a Bar on Staten Island; A Successful Man in Chicago Is Complimented on His Suit

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From the Diaries: Four Facts I Learned in a Bar on Staten Island; A Successful Man in Chicago Is Complimented on His Suit

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Lip Service: On Aretha and Beyoncé

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Lip Service: On Aretha and Beyoncé

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Wiki: What I Know Is

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Wiki: What I Know Is

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Boundless Informant: On Greenwald’s Snowden

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Boundless Informant: On Greenwald’s Snowden

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From the Diaries: Salt and Pepper Shakers; When We Stopped Saying We Were Going to Move Out of the City

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From the Diaries: Salt and Pepper Shakers; When We Stopped Saying We Were Going to Move Out of the City

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Datasexual: On Morozov, Lanier, Johnson, and Google

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Datasexual: On Morozov, Lanier, Johnson, and Google

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From the Diaries: Navajo Reservation; Medium Thoreau

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From the Diaries: Navajo Reservation; Medium Thoreau

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Writing About the Present: Mirror, Body, Shadow

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Writing About the Present: Mirror, Body, Shadow

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From the Diaries: Brows; Freckles

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From the Diaries: Brows; Freckles

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Zibaldone Diary

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Zibaldone Diary

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Žižek Press Junket

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Žižek Press Junket

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From the Diaries: Conversation Summary (Next Table); Why I’ve Never Had Sex in Hungary

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From the Diaries: Conversation Summary (Next Table); Why I’ve Never Had Sex in Hungary

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No One Hates Him More: On Franzen’s Kraus

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No One Hates Him More: On Franzen’s Kraus

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Recognized Witness: On H. G. Adler

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Recognized Witness: On H. G. Adler

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From the Diaries: What Kind of Neighborhood Is Palilula (Belgrade)?; The Hague

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From the Diaries: What Kind of Neighborhood Is Palilula (Belgrade)?; The Hague

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Conducting Mortality: On Henry-Louis de La Grange’s Mahler

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Conducting Mortality: On Henry-Louis de La Grange’s Mahler

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Fencing for Hitler: On Helene Mayer

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Fencing for Hitler: On Helene Mayer

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Speak Easy: On Bohumil Hrabal

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Speak Easy: On Bohumil Hrabal

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From the Diaries: Museum Fact (Rijeka); Critical Typo

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From the Diaries: Museum Fact (Rijeka); Critical Typo

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Hung Like an Obelisk, Hard as an Olympian: An Abecedarium of English-Language Publishing in Paris

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Hung Like an Obelisk, Hard as an Olympian: An Abecedarium of English-Language Publishing in Paris

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From the Diaries: Sounds of Odessa; Sights of Odessa; Odessa Fashion; Odessa at Work; Odessa Geography; London Stumble

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From the Diaries: Sounds of Odessa; Sights of Odessa; Odessa Fashion; Odessa at Work; Odessa Geography; London Stumble

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Pond Memories (on Georges Perec)

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Pond Memories (on Georges Perec)

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Auto-Flâneurism (on Tom McCarthy)

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Auto-Flâneurism (on Tom McCarthy)

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From the Diaries: The Only Caravaggio in Russia; My Friend’s Estimation of His Grandfather, a Forgotten Hungarian Painter

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From the Diaries: The Only Caravaggio in Russia; My Friend’s Estimation of His Grandfather, a Forgotten Hungarian Painter

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The Death of Culture, and Other Hypocrisies (on Mario Vargas Llosa)

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The Death of Culture, and Other Hypocrisies (on Mario Vargas Llosa)

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All Foison, All Abundance (on Florio’s Montaigne and Shakespeare’s Florio)

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All Foison, All Abundance (on Florio’s Montaigne and Shakespeare’s Florio)

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From the Diaries: Sentences from an English-Language Workbook Found in Sofia; A Phrase that Must Be, but Is Not, Originally Yiddish

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From the Diaries: Sentences from an English-Language Workbook Found in Sofia; A Phrase that Must Be, but Is Not, Originally Yiddish

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Inner Syntax (on Eimear McBride)

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Inner Syntax (on Eimear McBride)

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Inadvertence (on Alan Turing’s Centennial)

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Inadvertence (on Alan Turing’s Centennial)

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Her Own Asylum (on Anna Kavan)

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Her Own Asylum (on Anna Kavan)

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From the Diaries: American Woman Complimented by Greek Man; Bucharest Hostel

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From the Diaries: American Woman Complimented by Greek Man; Bucharest Hostel

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Bibliothanatos, or Epigraphs for a Last Book

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Bibliothanatos, or Epigraphs for a Last Book

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Open Sesame

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Open Sesame

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Me, U, Baku, Quba

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Me, U, Baku, Quba

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From the Diaries: Adoration of New Magi; Le Pont Mirabeau

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From the Diaries: Adoration of New Magi; Le Pont Mirabeau

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On the Transit of Toledo

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On the Transit of Toledo

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In Partial Disgrace (on Charles Newman)

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In Partial Disgrace (on Charles Newman)

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From the Diaries: A Certain Angle; The Mind Too; A; Posterity

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From the Diaries: A Certain Angle; The Mind Too; A; Posterity

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Reorientalism (on Mathias Énard)

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Reorientalism (on Mathias Énard)

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The Literature of Two Easts

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The Literature of Two Easts

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From the Diaries: Traveling

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From the Diaries: Traveling

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Israel Diary

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Israel Diary

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Lines of Occupation (on Yitzhak Laor)

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Lines of Occupation (on Yitzhak Laor)

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From the Diaries: To Think; Traveling Without You

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From the Diaries: To Think; Traveling Without You

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Literary Animals

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Literary Animals

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Top Ten Books About Online

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Top Ten Books About Online

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From the Diaries: What’s in the Bag?; Overnight Flight WC; Shooting

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From the Diaries: What’s in the Bag?; Overnight Flight WC; Shooting

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Impromptu Fantasias (on Benjamin de Casseres)

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Impromptu Fantasias (on Benjamin de Casseres)

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Paragraph for Liu Xiaobo

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Paragraph for Liu Xiaobo

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From the Diaries: There Should Be Words for the Following in German; Germany to Jersey for the Holidays

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From the Diaries: There Should Be Words for the Following in German; Germany to Jersey for the Holidays

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Thoughts on the Roths and Their Kaddish

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Thoughts on the Roths and Their Kaddish

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Dream Translations from the Early Hasidic

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Dream Translations from the Early Hasidic

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A (Short) History

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A (Short) History

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