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Author Bueno, Claudio Celis

Title The Attention Economy : Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism
Published London : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (212 pages)
Series Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Concept of Attention Economy; The Cognitive Capitalism Hypothesis; Towards an Immanent Critique; Chapter Outline; Notes; Chapter One Labour; The Attention Economy from the Standpoint of Labour; Watching as Working; A Reinterpretation of Marx's Concept of Labour; Notes; Chapter Two Value; The Notion of VALORIZATION Information; The Technical and Organic Composition of Capital; Knowledge and Information in the Valorization Process
Immaterial Labour and the Informational Content of the CommodityThe Example of Toyotism; The Attention Economy from the Standpoint of the Valorization Process; The Deconstruction of Marx's Labour Theory of Value; Labour, Exploitation and Power; Notes; Chapter Three Time; The Notion of Cinematic Time; Cinema as a Technical Temporal Object; From Deep to Hyper Attention; Industrialization of Schematism; The Three Passive Syntheses of Imagination; Stiegler's Reinterpretation of the Temporality of Imagination; Cinematic Time and the Attention Economy; Notes; Chapter Four Machines
A Social Theory of FlowsLabour, Value and Technology in Anti-. Oedipus; The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall; Surplus Value of Code and Surplus Value of Flux; Machinic Surplus Value; Desiring-Machines and the Illegitimate Use of Syntheses; Legitimate and Illegitimate uses of Syntheses; The Three Passive Syntheses of the Unconscious; Production, Distribution and Consumption; Towards an Immanent Critique of the Attention Economy; Notes; Chapter Five Power; Attention and Power: From Discipline to Control; The Mass and the Individual; The Panopticon, the Gaze and the Individual
Jonathan Crary's Genealogy of Modern AttentionThe Attention Economy and Control Societies; The Logic of Security; The Attention Economy as an Apparatus of Security; The Logic of Control and the Attention Economy; Machinic Enslavement and Social Subjection; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Develops a critique of the concept of the attention economy from the perspectives of labour, time, and power
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Subject Economics -- Philosophy
Attention -- Economic aspects
Knowledge economy.
Information society -- Economic aspects
Capitalism.
Capitalism
Economics -- Philosophy
Information society -- Economic aspects
Knowledge economy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783488254
1783488255