Politics itself is being reshaped by attentional extraction industries
Evidence
But it is also a defining spirit of our work that we choose not to take any load-bearing words or ideas for granted. This applies to the category of “politics.” As it turns out, there’s more to politics than what happens in statehouses! Part of our work is to tease out the ways that politics itself is being reshaped and redefined by the human frackers. Indeed, at the very HEART of Attention Activism is the idea that attention has become “political” in historically novel ways. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 445
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
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