Mind-fracking and earth-fracking are parallel unregulated extraction technologies

Evidence

One can lean on the analogy even harder. After all, fracking the deep earth to extract valuable hydrocarbons and fracking the deep structure of the human mind to extract marketable attention have both emerged as invasive, destructive technologies of wealth-creation across decades of fierce and largely unregulated competition in cutthroat industries. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 97

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the shale-fracking trajectory (cheap oil extended Big Oil’s lease on life) that earlier attention literature gestures toward. — connects to: Human fracking extracts attentional capacities as industry once extracted physical ones. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 458
• SEED: Essay angle: comparing fracking and attention-extraction as twin histories of unregulated resource exhaustion.