title: The economy of attention in the age of mental capitalism
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metadata.value: Kolesnikova, Daria A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-02-06T11:18:43Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-02-06T11:18:43Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Kolesnikova D. A. The economy of attention in the age of mental capitalism. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2019, vol. 35, issue 4, pp. 563–568.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2019.403
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17009
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper explores the contemporary implementation of attention as a scarce resource, which
  the economy, politics, and media culture must manage, distribute, and speculate. The purpose is
  to analyse the commodification of human capacities of attention within the paradigm of media
  philosophy. Conceptualisations such as “mental capitalism,” competition for “eyes,” and “clickthroughs”
  were identified as particular instantiations of forms in social media, photography, and
  art — from Instagram and Facebook to graffiti. I promote the view that visuality is an essential,
  contradictory, and inherent feature of the mental capitalism and its economy of self-esteem. In
  order to reframe a polemical account of the contemporary tendency of global capitalist technoculture,
  I briefly characterize the critical perspectives on the attention economy by Jonathan
  Beller and Bernard Stiegler. Finally, I emphasize the role of ecological and ethical responsibility
  in interpersonal relations and structures of social practices in the situation of “fight for attention.”
  The tasks of visual ecology in the age of mental capitalism are an elaboration of productive
  criteria of visual pollution, organization of the new forms of community strategies and policies,
  through attentive reflection of images and media milieu in which they develop, which are able to
  reconcile the contradictions between the technical and the natural.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article is written with the support from RFFR, project “Politics of media” (18-011-00414 А).
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 35; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: economy of attention
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mental capitalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: self-esteem
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: media philosophy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: visual ecology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: media consumption
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social media
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: politics of media
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The economy of attention in the age of mental capitalism
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metadata.value: Article
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