The Politics of Curiosity : Alternatives to the Attention Economy (Paperback)

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