Human fracking extracts attentional capacities as industry once extracted physical ones.

Evidence

We—the Friends of Attention, and many of our accomplice networks, too; all those committed to the Attention Liberation Movement—believe that the present moment constitutes a similar watershed. Whereas the industrial economy enabled a new and wholesale extraction of our physical capacities (the machinic exploitation of the movements of the body), the emergence of human fracking has enabled a new and wholesale extraction of our attentional capacities (the exploitation of the movements of the mind and senses). — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 458

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core parallel definition: industrial extraction of body-movements vs. human fracking’s extraction of mind-and-senses movements. This is the manifesto’s central diagnosis in compact form.
• QUESTION: The analogy rests on attention being genuinely analogous to industrial labor-power as an input to production. Is attention actually commodified and extractable the way physical labor became? Test this premise.
• XREF: connects to: An industry has channeled and commodified human attention like fracking extracts natural resources.; Human fracking describes extracting hard-to-reach attention by industrial chemical-like force — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 94; Industrial tech companies extract and commodify human attention like fracking extracts oil — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 514 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• An industry has channeled and commodified human attention like fracking extracts natural resources. #corroborates (0.95)
• Industrial tech companies extract and commodify human attention like fracking extracts oil #corroborates (0.92) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 514
• Human fracking describes extracting hard-to-reach attention by industrial chemical-like force #expands (0.90) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 94
• The smartphone harvested previously uncollected attention like fracking recovers oil. #corroborates (0.90) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1038
• Human attention is being extracted and commodified by an industrial-technological complex. #corroborates (0.85) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 514
• Mind-fracking and earth-fracking are parallel unregulated extraction technologies #expands (0.82) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 97
• Human fracking parallels industrial extraction of physical labor #contradicts (0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 458
• Human fracking reduces persons and relationships to quantifiable commodities. #expands (0.80)
• Industrialized attention extraction despoils the shared human spirit as pollution despoils water. #expands (0.78) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 479
• Highly skilled durational attention materially builds and maintains society’s infrastructure #qualifies (0.75)
• Attention is becoming the hegemonic resource restructuring material production #corroborates (0.70) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 47
• The attention economy functions as an industrial farm of vegetative users #complicates (0.70) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 83