Chantal Delsol: "A lesson from the health crisis, let's rehabilitate attention activities"

The adventure presents shakes up our habits and our priorities, comes to question our most ingrained certainties. Mainly, it comes up against the distinction between the activities of production and the activities of attention. Until then, we have not attached importance to this distinction, by our fundamental inability to understand the very reality of the activities of attention. While we are in the clutches of a health crisis that confiscates our short-term resources, and an environmental crisis that confiscates our long-term resources, a number of concepts, including this one, are becoming familiar to us.

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The activities of attention relate to the care taken to beings, and to the living in general, with a view to their preservation and their repair. It can be the care of children, the sick or the elderly, and in general the maintenance of life - it can be the activity of a gardener. Production activities relate to the manufacture or

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