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S3 Ep5: Resisting the Attention Economy with Jenny Odell

Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

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What Is the Attention Economy?

Sally Kohn: I think our attention and therefore our power is fractured in a bunch of ways. Our attention to ourselves, our own sensory experience of our lives, the quality of our relationships, all of that gets kind of fractured in what you call or is called the attention economy. So when I read your book, I read it really somewhat through that lens and you talk about listening as a kind of a bodily experience. She says she thinks there's a way to re-inhabit that space of relationship with our bodies and deeper relationship with one another. And so just basically anything where attention is the currency often favors a really kind of shallow attention.

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