The Attention Complex [electronic resource] : Media, Archeology, Method /
Rogers, K.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Diagrams; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Overview and Method; Overview; Critical Attention Studies; Method; The Repudiation of Universals/Problematization; The History of Science: From Episteme to Epistemologization; Diagrammatics: The Dispositif; Part I Attention Shifts; 1 Behavior; Habit; Management; Tasks; 2 Cognition; Intelligence; Vigilance; Control; 3 Complex; Capacity; Return to Attention; Part II Attention Deficits; 4 Resources; Theory; The Executive Function; Human Capital; 5 Game of Life; Crowds
Attention EconomyStrategic Elaboration of the Complex; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Motion pictures-History.
Communication.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Social sciences.
Film History.
Media Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Social Sciences, general.
Cultural Studies.