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The sirens' call : how attention became the world's most endangered resource / Chris Hayes.
"From the NYT-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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593653111 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 320 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Capitalism > Social aspects > United States. Political culture > United States. |
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"From the NYT-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"-- - Penguin Putnam
The #1 New York Times Bestseller ⢠One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC 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
âAn ambitious analysis of how the trivial amusements offered by online life have degraded not only our selves but also our politics.â âNew York Times
âBrilliant book . . . Reading it has made me change the way I work and think.â âRachel Maddow
"A useful primer on how social media and the attention economy have warped our democracy and reshaped our lives." âBarack Obama
We all feel itâthe distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. 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, âWith the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade.â Hayes argues that we are in the midst of a transiÂtion whose only parallel is that of labor in the nineteenth century: Attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated. The Sirensâ Call is the big-picture vision we urgently need to offer clarity and guidance.
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. As Hayes shares, âNow our deepest neurological structures, human evolutionÂary inheritances, and social impulses are in a habitat designed to prey upon, to cultivate, distort, or destroy that which most fundamentally makes us human.â The Sirensâ Call is the book that snaps everything into a single holistic frameÂwork so that we can wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future.
