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For our Summer Semester LitAttention Colloquium, Yves Citton will be joining us on the 18th of June. See below for his bio and the abstract for his talk.
From Narrative Attention to Anthropological Curiosity: Jan Potocki’s Manuscript found in Saragossa (1815)
Bio
Yves Citton is professor in Literature and Media at the Université Paris 8, at the Institut Universitaire de France and co-editor of the journal Multitudes. He published Mythocracy (2025), Mediarchy (2019), The Ecology of Attention (2016) and co-directed the volume Politics of Curiosity (2024). His articles are accessible on his website www.yvescitton.net.
Abstract
This talk will first suggest that framing attentional questions through the perspective of curiosity comes with several advantages. It will then sketch a reading of the great novel by Jan Potocki, Manuscript found in Saragossa (1815), to distinguish narrative curiosity from surprise and suspense, drawing on Raphaël Baroni’s narratological theory. Finally, it will reflect upon the socio-political and anthropological need to foster curiosity in the age of algorithmic governance and ecocidal business-as-usual.
The link to the lecture is available here.
