Over at his blog Pop Theory, Clive Barnett has written an excellent post working through some of his recent thinking on publicness. In the post, Clive questions the frequent tendency of debates about publicness to either explicitly or implicitly rely on a substantive and singular sense of ‘the Public’ being exposed or not exposed to various matters of concerns. But rather than merely performing the fashionable move of adding plurality (adding an ‘s’, i.e. ‘publics’) Clive makes a very evocative argument for thinking about publicness in terms of attention, or more specifically in terms of the pragmatics of attentive action, rather than as the simple act of making things visible.