What attention is remains an actively contested political question

Evidence

What is attention? The experts do not agree. In fact, they actively contradict each other. … These contradictions affirm the urgency of our cause. They are evidence that attention is already a site of active contestation. To affirm what attention is, or is not, or may be, is to decide what sort of world(s) we want to live in. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 58

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s reading purpose on contested definitions versus settled science; attention defined by fiat serves a faction. — connects to: Attention is the defining political and existential question of the current era; The line between forced and free attention is itself a political question needing investigation — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 67; Debates about attention are ultimately ontological, not political — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 250 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Attention is the defining political and existential question of the current era; The line between forced and free attention is itself a political question needing investigation — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 67; Debates about attention are ultimately ontological, not political — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 250 (+3 more)