Jim O'Donnell on Attention
“What we attend to – what we click on, what we browse, what we daydream – shapes our experience, colors our perceptions...."
Jim O’Donnell is the University Librarian of Arizona State University and a professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. Previously, O’Donnell served as provost and professor of classics at Georgetown University for a decade, after a career at Bryn Mawr College, Cornell University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
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