Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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we don't merely live in it, we are it project/high-castle

It would be terribly reductive--even if partially true--to characterize such enthralments in terms of an opposition between 'them' (the media, journalist,s the powerful, rulers, elites, the establishment) and 'us' (the poor little ignorant people, shamefully manipulated by Machiavellian politicia…

—p.29 The Ecology of Attention Media Enthralments and Attention Regimes (27) by Yves Citton
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attention and valorization

[...] The 'Great Society' dreamed up by Friedrich Hayek is admirably 'liberal' in that it endeavours to provide as many means of happiness as possible to the individuals that make it up, while leaving everyone free to provide their own definition of happiness [...] But attention cannot be reduced t…

—p.21 Introduction: From Attention Economy to Attention Ecology (1) by Yves Citton
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mental capitalism

As a consequence of this individualization of behaviours, we use chemistry to compel our children's attention (as well as our own), at all costs, to bend to the--unprecedented, completely artificial and terribly invasive--needs of a Janus-faced capitalism, which simultaneously advocates relentless …

—p.17 Introduction: From Attention Economy to Attention Ecology (1) by Yves Citton
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