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The ubiquity of digital media and engagement platforms has made it increasingly difficult to stop paying attention to the world around us. It's much harder now for us to be truly alone with our thoughts; advertising or messaging of some variety of another has colonized much of the landscape and soundscape around us. This results in a world where inattention has become a luxury good, argues Matthew B. Crawford. He describes this process as a seizure of the "attentional commons" by the elite, who constantly demand and manipulate our attention.
We have allowed attention to be commoditized; we must now pay to have it back.
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Past notions of a sovereign, autonomous self are increasingly outmoded in an era of digital capitalism that works efficiently to circumscribe our sense of possibility. Toda... - Capitalism in the attention economy limits our sense of possibilityCapitalism in the attention economy limits our sense of possibility
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According to Matthew Crawford, one of the modes in which capitalism operates is by "jigging" our experience such that our attention is focused only in certain directions. C...