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Coined description of the attention economy as extraction of users' minds

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tags	ja-picks, define, definitional_content, trade, singleton, category/definitional-content
aliases	@of_attention_attensity_2026, loc. 83

Sep 20, 20261 min read

Coined description of the attention economy as extraction of users’ minds

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We call it the “attention economy,” but in practice it is a globe-spanning industrial farm that extracts money from a billion vegetative humans suspended in an infinite web, eyes glazed. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 83

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DEFINE: A core rhetorical definition of the attention economy as industrial extraction, not mere persuasion.

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Coined description of the attention economy as extraction of users’ minds
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Coined description of the attention economy as extraction of users' minds

Coined description of the attention economy as extraction of users’ minds

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