Presence Without Attention: A Phenomenology of Distraction
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences July 28, 2026 Mohammed Hassen
Contemporary discourse treats distraction almost exclusively as a deficit: a failure of attention, a moral lapse, a symptom of technological overreach. This article argues that such a framing forecloses a more interesting phenomenological question, namely what kind of presence distraction itself constitutes. Drawing on Husserl's account of intentionality, Heidegger's analysis of falling and...