An attention-extraction industry converts human care into money and harms everyone.
Evidence
All this—the immaterial stuff of our being, on which the world literally depends—needs protecting. It needs a movement akin to the environmentalism of the 1960s and ’70s. Because the goodness of consciousness itself is now being remorselessly laid waste by a shocking new industry that recklessly and efficiently and surreptitiously converts human care (and interest and desire) into…MONEY. And this deranged enterprise is harming us all. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 480
Categorization
- DEFINE: Names the enemy and its mechanism in one compressed form — the core diagnostic the manifesto needs pinned down.
- XREF: connects to: Attention extraction reduces people to quantifiable commodities and demands collective remedy. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 32; Neoliberal policy converts every human need, even bodily ones, into profit-making enterprises. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 43; The attention extraction industry is an enemy of all humankind — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 85 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Human attention is being extracted and commodified by an industrial-technological complex.
#corroborates(0.97) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 514 - The attention extraction industry is an enemy of all humankind
#corroborates(0.95) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 85 - Attention extraction reduces people to quantifiable commodities and demands collective remedy.
#expands(0.92) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 32 - Neoliberal policy converts every human need, even bodily ones, into profit-making enterprises.
#expands(0.82) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 43 - An industry has channeled and commodified human attention like fracking extracts natural resources.
#exemplifies(0.80) - Attention-and-shame culture magnifies people’s baser impulses into harm.
#expands(0.75) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1101