Hayles’ article was written before the arrival of Generation Alpha, children born into and existing in an age where hyper-attention is at its peak. I would really love to see an article that continues that conversation. I am a mom of two Alphas, and Lord help me with the daily policies and struggles with technology….
Consent and Zooming/Zoomers–11/05/2023 In reading Hayles’ and Rivers’ pieces for this week, I am reminded of how different our experiences of attention are post-COVID-19, and the way that consent factors into this. When Rivers writes about, as he calls it, the “moment of capture,” he is writing before a time when all of our attention…
Extending from our October conversations and the prompts drafted in class on Monday, October 30, we have the following prompts to choose from for our RIDE Blog Carnival #2. An in-progress draft is due in your Google Folder by Monday, November 13; the entry deadline for posting is Friday, November 17. Approximate scope should be…
I was thinking of one of the questions proposed in class for the blog carnival as telling a story of recent repairs, and I could not get my mind off repair as “rejection”. This repair includes interactions with physical and digital things and non-things, with me as the hub at the center. I have had…
One of the most manipulative aspects of the like vs. dislike framework is how much it limits our encounters with ourselves and others. Odell writes about how algorithms “incrementally entomb” us until we become a static, deeply monolithic sum of our likes—an ‘us’ that fosters self-understanding through tidy, world-shrinking formulas shrouded as play (137). Meanwhile,…
Power centers want the people in the margin to unquestionably follow the rules they had set. Noncompliance has no space in the process of profit-making. Therefore, in a capitalist culture of productivism, refusing to produce (what the system demands) is an act of resistance. However, refusal is deeply connected to the activist’s background, social status,…
The use of social media platforms as a way of “living in the third space” (78) and digital rhetorical spaces to resist the attention economy. Odell (2017) sees attention economy as characterized by “racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, climate change denial, which are referred to as “myths and superstitions” with no basis in reality (p….
The Yorkie is smaller in height than an average blade of grass. To her, everything is supersized, bombastically large, critically unmoored. There is no context, no meaning to convention beyond raw joy. She is open to everything and closed to none, the natural enemy of the attention economy aside from that of tennis balls. I,…
Odell conceptualizes “nothingness” from different perspectives, including its antithesis to “busyness” in present times. She defines busyness as what Robert Louis Stevenson called a “symptom of deficient vitality” and “a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.” (qtd. on pdf, p. 8)….
“Live, Shop, Work & Dine in New York,” reads the tagline of Hudson Yards, a luxury neighborhood in the “Manhattan’s New West Side.” The HY advertises itself as a collective, a “cultural center” that’s “not only changed the way New York looks to the world, but the way the world sees New York.” HY’s website…
