{"id":1274,"date":"2009-09-07T15:03:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T13:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2009-09-07T15:03:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T13:03:52","slug":"a-short-manifesto-on-the-future-of-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"a short manifesto on the future of attention."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;And yet I can&#8217;t shake fantasizing about attention that has no price, that can&#8217;t be bought or sold, but is given freely: a gift. I buy and read books because I want to give the gift of my attention to the attention economy I&#8217;m (as a writer) a part of. I&#8217;m inspired by Lewis Hyde in The Gift, who says that what distinguishes commodities is that they&#8217;re used up, but what distinguishes gifts is that they circulate \u2014 the gift is never trapped, consumed, used up, contained or confined. That seems like the best basis for cultural production to thrive. So this is what it&#8217;s come to: when an attention gift economy seems more practical and sustainable than an exchange economy for information commodities, which is being rotted by the gift&#8217;s ugly negation: the free.&#8220; [<a href=\"http:\/\/observatory.designobserver.com\/entry.html?entry=10297\">#<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;And yet I can&#8217;t shake fantasizing about attention that has no price, that can&#8217;t be bought or sold, but is given freely: a gift. I buy and read books because I want to give the gift of my attention to the attention economy I&#8217;m (as a writer) a part of. I&#8217;m inspired by Lewis Hyde [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gedankentraeger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}