Escaping the attention economy differs from escaping the world entirely

Evidence

This is the beginning of an ongoing distinction I’ll make between 1) escaping “the world” (or even just other people) entirely and 2) remaining in place while escaping the framework of the attention economy and an over-reliance on a filtered public opinion. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 36

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the pivotal distinction the reader must marshal to defend Odell against the withdrawal misreading — ‘doing nothing’ means refusing the framework, not abandoning people.
• XREF: connects to: Directed attention does not weaken world-consciousness but relegates the world to ground — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 881