Consensual attending addresses the ecological and relational conditions in which any act of assent or dissent materializes. I argue that consent is not an act undertaken by individuals, but is a relational endeavor that individuates. Any solitary act of assent—of thinking, perceiving, feeling—is predicated upon prior and ongoing consensual acts. The terms of consensual attending modulate one another: consensual distributes attention beyond the individual and attending intensifies the consensual in marking how our joint and collective attention individuates us as sensing beings. Consensual attending is predicated not upon individual rhetorical acts of assent but ambient formations in which rhetorical capacities emerge. To arrive at such a consent, I retune William James’ articulation of attention as a function of agreement by looking toward ecologies of attention. This retuning necessarily entails thinking through the ethical and political implications of consensual attending in our present political moment, wherein the virality of #resist and #metoo registers anxiety about our individual and collective (in)capacities to dis/agree. I engage feminist scholarship on consent in the context of sexual relations in thinking through the contextual composition of consent. Thinking through scholarship on sexual consent complicates consensual attending, and addressing sexual consent itself serves as an example of the trouble lurking in the reduction of consent to assent. Such a reduction leaves unaddressed the ecologies in which such collective capacities are composed. I conclude by returning to attention in order to speculate how such consensual capacities might be composed.

同意参加会议可以解决任何同意或不同意行为都在其中发生的生态和相关条件。我认为，同意不是个人采取的行动，而是个人化的关系努力。任何单独的同意行为（例如思考，感知，感觉）都取决于先前和正在进行的自愿行为。同意参加的条件相互调节：同意将注意力分散到个人和参加之外在标记我们的共同和集体关注如何使我们个性化为感官存在时，加深了双方的共识。同意参加不是基于同意的个人修辞行为，而是基于出现修辞能力的环境形式。为了达成这样的同意，我通过关注注意力的生态，重新调整了威廉·詹姆斯对注意力的表达，将其作为协议的一项功能。这种重新调整必然需要思考在我们目前的政治时刻自愿参加的伦理和政治影响，其中#resist和#metoo的病毒性表现出对我们个人和集体（不同）不同意/同意能力的焦虑。在性关系的背景下，我通过同意的语境构成来思考关于同意的女权主义奖学金。通过学术界对性同意的思考使同意参加复杂化，解决性同意本身就是潜伏在减少同意同意上的麻烦的一个例子。这样的减少使构成集体能力的生态问题得不到解决。最后，我再次关注以推测这种共识能力是如何构成的。