The Attention Complex

Over the past two decades in the United States, a profound reorientation of human attention has taken shape. This book addresses the recent cultural anxiety about attention as a way of negotiating a crisis of the self that is increasingly managed, mediated, and controlled by technologies.

"The Attention Complex certainly got my attention: it is a lively read rife with smart insights about the cultural logic of attention, as well as thoroughly convincing historicization of the 'invention' of ADHD." - Jasbir Puar, Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, USA, and author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times

Autorentext
Kenneth Rogers is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at York University, Canada.

Inhalt
PART I: ATTENTION SHIFTS 1. Behavior 2. Cognition 3. Complex PART II: ATTENTION DEFICITS 4. Resources 5. Game of Life