The Politics of Curiosity: Alternatives to the Attention Economy [Hardcover]

Introduction??Attention, Distraction and Curiosity: Remantling our Mental Infrastructures??Part I: Critical Views on Attention??1. Quick Bites: Short-Form Attention in the Era of Platform Capitalism? 2. The Socio-Cognitive Politics of Curiosity and Attention? 3. On the Historical Co-Construction of Good Attention and Bad Curiosity? 4. Two Attacks on Attention? 5. A Writing Workshop: Arts of Joint Attention, Curiosity and Care in University??Part II: Digital Mental Infrastructures??6. Curiosity among the Ruins of Homo Faber: Infrastructural Capitalism and the Politics of Care? 7. The Drift of Attention Regimes in the Age of Digital Platforms: When Curiosity Was Taken Over by Reputation? ?8. The Digital Market of Interests and Feelings? ?Part III: Praises of Distraction??9. Distraction and its Doppelgangers? 10. Art and the Power of Distraction: Bergson, Benjamin, and Simone Weil? 11. Curious Entities of Attentive Distraction??Part IV: Promises of Curiosities??12. From the Economy of Attention to the Politics of Curiosity? 13. Platforms of Curiosities: Weird Ways of Publishing Movies? 14. Tribulations of Curiosity? 15. On the Variety of Attentional Practices? ?Postlude??16. Sticking with Speculation: A Practice in Noticing Attention

Through a variety of studies in the emerging field of attentional studies, this book examines and seeks alternatives to the current attention economy. Bringing together the work of leading scholars of critical attention studies to reflect on issues such as techno-politics, socio-politics, and the politics of distraction, it offers a new and multi-disciplinary conceptualization oflã*