Essay · Philosophy
The ethics of attention
What we choose to notice is already a moral act, long before we decide to act on it.
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Philosophy · Mind · Science · Culture
Lena Fischer
The weather inside — attention, memory, grief and the rest of it.
Lena writes at the seam where neuroscience runs out of language and poetry starts. She is interested in the moments the mind is least reliable, which she maintains are the moments it is most itself.
- 5 essays
- Berlin
- Writing since 2020
lena.nyirobi.orglenafischer.de
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The grammar of grief
Mourning has a syntax. Learning to read it may be the first step toward speaking again.
18 min read
Essay · Mind
The weather inside
Moods are not interruptions of thought. They are its climate, its prevailing wind.
18 min read
Essay · Science
The colour that isn’t there
Why your vivid sense of the visible world is, in the end, a very useful fiction.
18 min read
Essay · Culture
Listening as a lost art
Before the recording, a piece of music was something you could never hear twice.
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Moods are not interruptions of thought. They are its climate.