The rise of Bolsonaro galvanized attention activists around attention’s commodification

Evidence

We had come from Poland, Turkey, England, Hungary, Germany, France, and elsewhere, and we were galvanized by the anger we felt in Brazil—and by a shared sense that the “politics of attention” (and specifically the wholesale commodification of attention) demanded urgent address. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 25

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s core ‘human fracking’ idea — the wholesale commodification of attention is the definitional enemy. Also echoes the reader’s existing work on attention extraction and injustice. — connects to: Attention has emerged as a site of political, economic, and moral struggle — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 10
• ADDENDUM: Supports the manifesto’s causal story that Big Data social media politics (Bolsonaro) drove attention activists to mobilize.