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The Sirens' Call

By Chris Hayes

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The Sirens' Call

By Chris Hayes

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A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick 2025 From the New York Times bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society. We all feel it - the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they're us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed utterly: for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, 'With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade.' Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition: attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated. Because there is a breaking point. Sirens are designed to compel us, and now they are going off in our bedrooms and kitchens at all hours of the day and night, doing the bidding of vast empires, the most valuable companies in history, built on harvesting human attention. The Sirens' Call is the big book we all need to wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future.
Product details
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2025-02-13
Publication Date:
2025-02-13
Publisher:
Scribe UK
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1914484940
ISBN13:
9781914484940
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
553 g
Height:
165 cm
Width:
242 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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