Attention economy pits financialization against alternative forms of value

Evidence

In the fracklands of the attention economy, we witness a clash not between justice and mercy, but between the logic of relentless financialization of human attention (on the one hand) and alternative forms of value (on the other). In that scorched-earth conflict, spaces of protection are urgently needed. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 340

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Crystallizes the book’s core diagnostic framing: attention extraction as a scorched-earth conflict in need of protected spaces.

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