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The Pathologies of the Attention Economy - by L. M. Sacasas

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The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 16

The Pathologies of the Attention Economy The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 16 L. M. Sacasas Sep 26, 2022 105 7 10 Share Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. I am fated, it seems, to periodically return to the subject of attention. I will at least try to keep these periodic reconsiderations of attention a few months apart. In this case, I selectively trace the history of attention discourse back to the 19th century in order to observe a pattern we should take into consideration whenever we talk about the “problem of attention” and when we try to do some

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