Attention is the defining political and existential question of the current era

Evidence

The subject? ATTENTION. Human attention, and inhuman attention, too. Machine attention (the kind the machines pay to us, and vice versa). Attention as a medium (in art), as a problem (in our shifting technological landscape), as an opportunity (in our lives and in our relationships). Attention as, in deep ways, the key question of our moment—in our politics and in our experience of being. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 23

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Frames ‘attention’ as encompassing human and machine attention, and as the key question of the moment — the manifesto’s core subject definition.

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