Attentive extraction and object excess are the same act

Evidence

Yes, there are, predictably, a few tech apologists who try to argue that the benefits of this arrangement outweigh its risks. But they mostly don’t let their own kids have phones until they go to college, and make them study violin (with tutors, in fortress-mansions). More significantly, the whole idea of treating the situation as a cost-benefit analysis ignores the fact that our dehumanization cannot be quantified. This is not a conversation about trade-offs. This is a conversation about coercion, theft, and the instrumentalization of human life. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 84 (#expands, via linked claim)

In reality, we realize that most analyses of attention have from time immemorial situated it across two levels, illustrated in Condillac’s fable of the statue whose senses are reduced to the sense of smell and who then has various flowers passed under its nose: ‘passive attention, coming from the sense of smell, will be all about the present smell of the rose, and active attention, coming from memory, will be split between the memory that remains of the smells of the rose and the carnation’. From Condillac’s ‘passive’ and ‘active’ attention to Daniel Kahneman’s systems 1 (intuitive) and 2 (reasoned), the categorizations have varied widely, but we find a similar distribution of attention over two spheres, with one relating to automatic functions and the other to intentional efforts. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 359 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Attention extraction is coercion and theft, not a trade-off — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 84; Attention theories have long split attention into automatic and intentional spheres — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 359

Broader Connections

• Attention extraction is coercion and theft, not a trade-off #expands (0.72) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 84
• Attention theories have long split attention into automatic and intentional spheres #complicates (0.70) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 359