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The Sirens' Call

The Sirens' Call

Inner Life in the Age of Attention Capitalism

by Chris Hayes
Hardback
Publication Date: 13/02/2025

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From the New York Timesbestselling 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' Callis the big book we all need to wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future.

ISBN:
9781914484940
9781914484940
Category:
History of ideas
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
13-02-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Scribe Publications
Country of origin:
Australia
Dimensions (mm):
234x153mm
Chris Hayes

Chris Hayes is an award-winning author, journalist, and broadcaster. He's been the host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC since 2013 and the podcast Why Is This Happening? since 2018.

He's the author of three books, Twilight of the Elites, A Colony in a Nation, and The Sirens' Call. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Kate Shaw, and their three children.

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