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S3 Ep5: Resisting the Attention Economy with Jenny Odell

Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

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Are You Reaping the Attention Economy?

I think we often think of it almost as like a foregone conclusion that we will relinquish our attention to the metaverse. But you can only really do that if you are seated somewhere inside of yourself and your own being to be able to do that level of discernment. It sort of remains an open question for me in part because I live in a world that is social media. You know there aren't really a lot of things that you can actually turn your back on. That's also kind of a big part of my second book is like in anyone who's trying to imagine any kind of change right has to deal with that.

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