Education and knowledge are reified forms of accumulated attention
Evidence
Education can also be regarded as accumulated attention capital, the attention one pays to oneself and that teachers, parents, and others have paid to you in relation to your schooling. Knowledge itself is reified attention capital, the attention that has been focused on a particular topic, and which in turn earns interest as the springboard for further knowledge-production. — Michael H. Goldhaber, The Attention Economy and the Net, 13
Categorization
- DEFINE: Extends the attention-capital concept to cover education and knowledge production, with interest-earning as a metaphor.
- XREF: Resonates with the reader’s existing knowledge of capital-as-metaphor frameworks and knowledge economies. — connects to: Literary studies must be reinvented, not merely recovered, as an attentional practice.; Attention consists in labor that augments our ability to notice the neglected — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 269; Imperial dispositions are trained habits of attention channeled by rules of relevance (+1 more)
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- Attention is becoming the hegemonic resource restructuring material production (similarity 0.81)
- Attention consists in labor that augments our ability to notice the neglected (similarity 0.81)
- Attention is the scarce resource that powers the information economy. (similarity 0.81)
- The attention economy rests on a hidden false premise about attention. (similarity 0.80)
- Attention functions as a currency that compounds like interest. (similarity 0.80)
- Attention-economy analysis must be reframed within a broader attention ecosophy (similarity 0.80)
- Discourse on the attention economy took off sharply around 1996 (similarity 0.79)
- Attention has long been treated as valuable and manipulable, not only digitally. (similarity 0.79)
- Attention operates as an addictive wealth of increasing returns (similarity 0.79)
- Attention’s present-bound nature contradicts the notion of capital accumulation (similarity 0.79)
- Paying attention differs from spending time or being aware. (similarity 0.79)
- Attention now functions like money as a common metric for cultural value. (similarity 0.79)
- Attention ecology is a surprisingly underinvestigated field needing new vocabulary (similarity 0.79)