Individual choice does not precede but follows collective media enthralments.
Evidence
We must set out from here if we are to challenge the individualist presuppositions that lead most discourses on the attention economy astray: before being a matter of individualized choices, attention is first of all structured (and spellbound) by collective enthralments, which are inextricably architectural and magnetic, and which are induced by media apparatuses circulating certain forms (rather than others) among and within us. It is based on this capacity to think collectively – the communal νους from which we [nous] emerge as a community – that attention phenomena at the level of the mediasphere must be analysed. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 100
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces the book’s core term ‘collective enthralments’ and the transindividual framing that anchors all later definitions.
- XREF: connects to: Media convergence can constitute reality rather than merely representing it. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 19; Individuality is a product of market political economy, not its opposite — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 169; Hyper-individualized attention ironically enslaves people to media rather than freeing them — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1139 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Individuality is a product of market political economy, not its opposite
#corroborates(0.82) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 169 - The human race is constituted by free individual choices, not vice versa
#contradicts(0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1222 - Hyper-individualized attention ironically enslaves people to media rather than freeing them
#corroborates(0.78) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1139 - Socially prescribed behavior forms the conditions of self-emergence, not its obstacle.
#corroborates(0.75) - Media convergence can constitute reality rather than merely representing it.
#expands(0.72) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 19