Attention, not networks or devices, is the true substrate of all connection.

Evidence

How have we been separated from each other and the world—and even from ourselves—at the absolute historical apex of global communicative interconnection? The answer, we believe, is surprisingly simple: The actual stuff of all connection—the true way we are present to being, beings, and everything else—is neither a network nor a device. It isn’t outrage, or, for that matter, hope. It isn’t blood, sweat, or tears, either. It is attention. And they have seriously fucked with our attention. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 53

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames attention as the fundamental medium of presence — setting up the book’s core definitional move.
• XREF: Forms the premise for the ‘human fracking’ thesis the reader wants to test — attention as a resource extracted by industrial technique.