Dominic Pettman

Seeking Attention depicts the intimate complicity between attention and identity with the assertion, "You are what you pay attention to." Exploring the essential yet elusive nature of attention, Seeking Attention offers a fresh, thought-provoking perspective. Inspired by Simone Weil's statement that "attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity," this book focuses on a novel collection of short "portraits."...

Abandonment is as old as time, but ghosting is a modern twist on this ancient experience. It translates this age-old phenomenon into our modern world of screens, delete buttons, and blocking options. Ghosting is not only an unpleasant experience or cowardly act, but a symptom of our increasingly spectral – that is, mediated and virtual – relationship to the world....

What is the carbon footprint of your libido? In this highly original book, Dominic Pettman examines the mutual influence and impact of human desire and ecological crisis. His account is premised on a simple but startling observation: the decline of libido among the world’s population, the loss of the human sex drive, closely tracks the destruction of environments worldwide. The...

“Everything is sad,” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be forever weeping the “tears of things”? In this series of meditations, Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker explore some of the key “negative affects” – both eternal and...