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The sirens' call : how attention became the world's most endangered resource

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2025

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Title:	The sirens' call : how attention became the world's most endangered resource
Author:	Hayes, Chris, 1979 February 28- author.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	New York : Penguin Press, 2025. ©2025
Description:	320 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:	"From the NYT-bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Capitalism -- Social aspects -- United States. Political culture -- United States. Attention. Social change.
Genre:	Informational works.
Contents:	The sirens' call -- The slot machine and Uncle Sam -- The root of evil -- Social attention -- Alienation -- Dawn of the attention age -- Public attention -- Reclaiming our minds.
ISBN	9780593653111

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