Attention & Love – Casey Schwartz
Freedom Matters
00:00
How Technology Is Impacting Attention
The author was more interested in what attention has meant to great writers and thinkers through history than on the silicon valley aspect, which i feel like is pretty well covered by other people. For aljas huxley, david foster wallace, himon vay, william james, the original philosopher, king of attention. And as they thought more and more about attention, wrote more and moreabout attention, it was so clear that for all of them, attention became this subject with huge stakes. It really goes to the heart of things like sempathy and compassion. This is why attention is such a seductive topic. You can't pin it down to one tiny compartment and likes.
Transcript
Play full episode
