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WEIL, SIMONE
1909–1943
Attention (The Doctrine of Reverence)
Weil: attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity — the suspension of self that allows the other to appear in their reality. CoCA's Doctrine of Reverence (§1.3) is attention codified as institution. The wall text attends. The reading room attends. The Vow of Calm attends. The institution is, at its best, a piece of architecture for the practice of Weilian attention. The applicant is attended to. The artwork is attended to. The reader practices.