Sublime

doing nothing as an act of political resistance to the attention economy,

a similar battle playing out for our time, a colonization of the self by capitalist ideas of productivity and efficiency.

am interested in a disciplined deepening of attention.

For my purposes, the attention economy is as simple as the buying and selling of attention. There’s the micro, literal version of that, which is “engagement,” a measure of how much time someone spends in an app and how much they engage with it. But I think a broader definition of the attention economy is kind of like — as I personally experience i