Fragmented attention is functional for capital, not an accident.

Evidence

The state of reactive panic in which most of us find ourselves is not an accidental side-effect of post-Fordist labour. It is highly functional for capital that our time is not only quantitatively short but qualitatively fragmented, bitty. We are required to live in the condition that Linda Stone has called “continuous partial attention”, where our attention is habitually distributed across multiple communication platforms. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1631

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the book’s running claim (ch73, ch54) that entertainment/media conditions rather than merely entertain — here on the level of attentional structure itself. — connects to: Attention asymmetries stem from production structures, not individual bad will. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 189; Poverty, inequality, and unemployment are solutions, not problems, for capital. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 159; Fragmented attention is functional for capital, not an accidental side effect — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1631

Broader Connections

• Attention asymmetries stem from production structures, not individual bad will. #expands (0.85) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 189
• Poverty, inequality, and unemployment are solutions, not problems, for capital. #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 159