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attention attracts attention

We touch concretely here on the mechanism by which the attention economy is rooted in a CIRCULAR SELF-REINFORCING DYNAMIC: attention attracts attention. Attention accumulated in the past and the present supports the future accumulation of attention. It is because millions of tourist have come to …

—p.48 The Ecology of Attention Attentional Capitalism (44) by Yves Citton
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competition in reception of cultural goods

[...] with the reduction to zero of the marginal costs for the transmission of digital goods we are in the midst of the emergence of something absolutely novel with profoundly revolutionary implications. But, on the one hand, the costs of production of the material goods necessary for the exist…

—p.44 Attentional Capitalism (44) by Yves Citton
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the unrealism of the neoliberal

[...] If our behaviour is always (a little) irrational, this is because our actions are always (a little) constrained (for lack of means or lack of time), a constraint which prevents us from collecting enough information to be certain about what we are doing. It is precisely here that we can gauge …

—p.36 Media Enthralments and Attention Regimes (27) by Yves Citton
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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 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