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The Ecology of Attention
Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit. In this new book, cultural theorist Yves Citton goes against the tide of these standard laments to offer a new perspective on the problem of attention in the digital age. Phrases like paying attention and investing ones attention attest to our mistaken belief that attention can be conceptualized in narrow economic terms. We are constantly drawn towards attempts to quantify and commodify attention, even down to counting the number of 'likes' a picture receives on Facebook or a video on ...
Mediarchy
We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies. Our political regimes are based less on nations or citizens than on audiences shaped by the media. We assume that our social and political destinies are shaped by the will of the people without realizing that ‘the people’ are always produced, both as individuals and as aggregates, by the media: we are all embedded in mediated publics, ‘intra-structured’ by the apparatuses of communication that govern our interactions. In this major book, Yves Citton maps out the new regime of experience, media and power that he designates by the term ‘mediarchy’. To understand mediarchy, we need to look both at the effects tha...
Mythocracy
The radical politics of storytelling Pointing beyond common worries about misinformation and fake news, Mythocracy focuses on the attention economy. Through Spinoza and Denis Diderot, Paul Ricoeur and Francesca Poletta, Wu Ming and Sun Ra, Citton investigates the attention economy. Citton here brilliantly shows that the Left has underestimated the power of myth, abandoning it to reactionary political movements. The time has come, argues Citton, to theorize and practice an empowering circulation of myths.
The Politics of Curiosity
Through a variety of studies in the emerging field of attentional studies, this book examines and seeks alternatives to the current attention economy. Bringing together the work of leading scholars of ‘critical attention studies’ to reflect on issues such as techno-politics, socio-politics, and the politics of distraction, it offers a new and multi-disciplinary conceptualization of attention that emphasizes the connections between attention and curiosity, distraction, decoloniality and care. Above all, The Politics of Curiosity asks us to consider the nature and ambivalence of the curious forms of politics that might be taking shape in the shadow of our current attention economy. The “...
Pour une écologie de l'attention
Économie de l'attention, incapacité de se concentrer, armes de distraction massive, googlisation des esprits : d'innombrables publications dénoncent le déferlement d'images et d'informations qui, de la télévision à Internet en passant par les jeux vidéo, condamnerait notre jeunesse à un déficit attentionnel pathologique. Cet essai propose une vision d'ensemble de ces questions qui prend à contre-pied les lamentations courantes. Oui, la sur-sollicitation de notre attention est un problème à mettre au cœur de nos analyses économiques, de nos réformes pédagogiques, de nos réflexions éthiques et de nos luttes politiques. Mais, non, l'avènement du numérique ne nous condamne p...
Renverser l'insoutenable
Dictature des marchés, politiques d'austérité, inégalités sociales, catastrophes environnementales, crises démocratiques : de toutes parts nous arrivent les signes de la fin d'un monde caractérisé par des pressions insoutenables. Yves Citton ébauche un nouveau vocabulaire politique pour renverser cet insoutenable à la fois environnemental, éthique, social, médiatique et psychique. À la croisée de multiples (in)disciplines, cet essai drôle et enlevé prend le contre-pied du misérabilisme ambiant en révélant que le renversement de l'insoutenable est déjà inscrit dans les dynamiques collectives de nos gestes les plus communs. Il esquisse une politique des gestes qui prend sa...
The French Atlantic Triangle
A study of representations of the French Atlantic slave trade in the history, literature, and film of France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.
Roland Barthes' Cinema
The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with the cinema. As a cultural critic, he warned of its surreptitious ability to lead the enthralled spectator toward an acceptance of a pre-given world. As a leftist, he understood that spectacle could be turned against itself and provoke deep questioning of that pre-given world. And as an extraordinarily sensitive human being, he relished the beauty of images and the community they could bring together.
Identity and Translation Trouble
Besides providing a thorough overview of advances in the concept of identity in Translation Studies, the book brings together a variety of approaches to identity as seen through the prism of translation. Individual chapters are united by the topic and their predominantly cultural approach, but they also supply dynamic impulses for the reader, since their methodologies, level of abstraction, and subject matter differ. The theoretical impulses brought together here include a call for the ecology of translational attention, a proposal of transcultural and farcical translation and a rethinking of Bourdieu’s habitus in terms of František Miko’s experiential complex. The book also offers first-hand insights into such topics as post-communist translation practices, provides sociological insights into the role politics played during state socialism in the creation of fields of translated fiction and the way imported fiction was able to subvert the intentions of the state, gives evidence of the struggles of small locales trying to be recognised though their literature, and draws links between local theory and more widely-known concepts.
Human Perception and Digital Information Technologies
This ground-breaking collection explores the ways in which digital information technologies form and influence human perception and experience. Defying technological determinism, it takes on board discursive perspectives from humanities, bringing digital media, affect and body studies into conversation with one another.
