The Attention Complex : Media, Archeology, Method / by K. Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers, K., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Communication.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Social sciences.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Film and TV History.

Media and Communication.

Regional Cultural Studies.

Society.

Cultural Studies.

Local Subjects:

Film and TV History.

Media and Communication.

Regional Cultural Studies.

Society.

Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Diagrams; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Overview and Method; Overview; Critical Attention Studies; Method; The Repudiation of Universals/Problematization; The History of Science: From Episteme to Epistemologization; Diagrammatics: The Dispositif; Part I Attention Shifts; 1 Behavior; Habit; Management; Tasks; 2 Cognition; Intelligence; Vigilance; Control; 3 Complex; Capacity; Return to Attention; Part II Attention Deficits; 4 Resources; Theory; The Executive Function; Human Capital; 5 Game of Life; Crowds

Attention EconomyStrategic Elaboration of the Complex; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349434534

1349434531

9781137318640

1137318643

OCLC:

869792784