The Attention Economy : Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism.

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 Commodity -- The 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 Flows -- Labour, 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 Attention -- The 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.

Develops a critique of the concept of the attention economy from the perspectives of labour, time, and power.

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