The attention economy has captured control of how cultures dream

Evidence

There is no culture without such promises. But in the attention economy, we have ceded the writing of these scripts to those who would sell us to ourselves, for the price of our souls. It isn’t a good deal, and as Attention Activists we decline to take it. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 435

Categorization

• XREF: This naming of the enemy — corporations writing our collective promise-scripts — anchors the manifesto’s adversarial diagnosis, connecting to the chapter’s ‘human fracking’ program. — connects to: Attention now functions like money as a common metric for cultural value. — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 18; Dream-architecture scenes expose the vacuousness of the creative industries — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 526; The attention economy captures pre-existing human communities onto platforms to monetize them — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 324
• SHARE: The phrase ‘sell us to ourselves, for the price of our souls’ as a capsule tagline for the whole diagnosis.

Broader Connections

• The attention economy captures pre-existing human communities onto platforms to monetize them #corroborates (0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 324
• Attention now functions like money as a common metric for cultural value. #expands (0.75) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 18
• Dream-architecture scenes expose the vacuousness of the creative industries #exemplifies (0.72) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 526