Attention extraction reduces people to quantifiable commodities and demands collective remedy.
Evidence
Human fracking is bad for people, and for politics. It reduces our very beings (and our relationships) to that which can be quantified, bought, and sold. All this is the triumph of a catastrophic lie about what it means to be human. But deceit and exploitation are never inevitable. To push back, we need more than isolated, individual efforts; what we need is a movement of collective resistance. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 32
Categorization
- XREF: States clearly that individual fix is insufficient — contradicting the whole ‘digital detox’/self-help genre; connects to critiques of neoliberal self-care. — connects to: An attention-extraction industry converts human care into money and harms everyone. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 480; Attention commodification reduces human beings and relationships to quantifiable, saleable things.; Attention extraction unjustly commodifies the self and requires collective rather than individual remedy (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Attention extraction unjustly commodifies the self and requires collective rather than individual remedy
#corroborates(1.00) - Attention commodification reduces human beings and relationships to quantifiable, saleable things.
#corroborates(0.95) - The fix for attention problems is collective attentional freedom, not individual span
#corroborates(0.92) - Platform metrics reduce a person’s entire value to measurable attention
#corroborates(0.90) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 12 - Uncapturable collective gathering time constitutes resistance to the Attention Economy.
#expands(0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 311