K. Rogers

The Attention Complex (eBook, PDF)

Media, Archeology, Method

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137318640
• Artikelnr.: 40722000

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"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