Human fracking parallels industrial extraction of physical labor

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). And like the workers at the dawn of that new epoch, we have reason to believe that there are unknown forms of power before us, and unknown kinds of politics. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 458

Categorization

• XREF: The core ‘human fracking’ definition and the industrial analogy the reader’s bet-test hinges on — pins it down precisely. — connects to: Human fracking extracts attentional capacities as industry once extracted physical ones. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 458