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

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attention and literary interpretation topic/literary-theory

[...] the effects of diffraction and polysemy peculiar to linguistic signifiers, so as to find as signification in the text that exceeds both what the author wanted to put there and what readers believed they had found as they sought to reconstitute the author's intentions. Indeed, in contrast to h…

—p.118 The Ecology of Attention The Micro-Politics of Attention (106) by Yves Citton
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principle of commodification archive/dissertation archive/mc433

[...] the phenomena of alignment, convergence, synchronization and concentration of attention brought about by PageRank would remain innocent enough if the attention economy wasn't completely overdetermined by the quest for financial profit that has now been elevated to a condition of survival.

—p.73 The Digitalization of Attention (63) by Yves Citton
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geopolitical attention exploitation

This same asymmetry can be found at the global level of GEOPOLITICAL ATTENTION EXPLOITATION: _'the most advanced--Western--cultures export information massively and import huge amounts of live attention for it, while the cultures of other regions export very modest amounts of information and accord…

—p.60 Attentional Capitalism (44) by Yves Citton
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advertising as a market distortion

If orthodox economic science, neoliberals and capitalism's apologists really wanted to promote 'free and unskewed competition', they would start by putting an end to (or drastically taxing) advertising activities, where the unequal powers with respect to the propagation of costly signals constitute…

—p.57 Attentional Capitalism (44) by Yves Citton
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attention arms race archive/dissertation

So an ATTENTION ARMS RACE is set up: the more a market society becomes mediatized, the more it must dedicate a significant proportion of its activity to the production of demand, investing ever greater resources into the machinery of attention attraction. Like military arms races, this attention …

—p.58 Attentional Capitalism (44) by Yves Citton