Jun 4, 2025
Commodified Attention and the Ontological Erosion of the Self: Against the Economies of Captured Presence
In a civilisation that has rendered time a unit of economic calculation and attention a monetisable extract, we must ask: what becomes of being when it is no longer allowed to dwell in duration, but instead is continuously summoned to perform, react, and produce data for unseen ends? Photo by KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA on Pexels.com The human subject, once grounded in temporal interiority, reflexive…
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