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The Sirens' Call How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

Chris Hayes

The #1 We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. Something has changed utterly: For most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, “With the help of a few t...

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Hayes announced the release of his new book, describing it as an examination of attention as a scarce resource and how it is exploited in modern society.

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In just five days' time, next week, it's a big week for me, my brand new book, The Siren's Call, hits bookstores across the country. I've been working on it for a few years and it's about how basicall...

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Hayes announced the release of his new book, describing it as an examination of attention as a scarce resource and how it is exploited in modern society.

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In just five days' time, next week, it's a big week for me, my brand new book, The Siren's Call, hits bookstores across the country. I've been working on it for a few years and it's about how basically every single aspect of human life is now being reoriented around the pursuit of attention. In The Siren's Call, I not only examine this new age of attention capitalism, but also ways we can stop the precious resource of our attention from being co-opted and exploited.

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