How has the difficult year of 2020 influenced your hyper and deep attention? Consider a novel, a movie, or a tv series that you enjoyed this year, or more. Connect ideas from Katherine Hayles’ essay “Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes” to your life now.

1. How might Tayo from Silko’s novel Ceremony react to reading Sebastian Junger’s book Tribe? How might Tayo’s view of war differ from Junger’s? Junger is a wealthy journalist from suburban Boston who witnesses war; Tayo is a Pueblo veteran who fights in war and witnesses his cousin die. How might Tayo and Junger look […]