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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 The Ecology of Attention 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
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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 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