For more than twenty years now, we have been hearing that a "new economy" is on the verge of supplanting old modes of exchange of material goods – an economy where attention will constitute the first rarity and the most precious source of value. So then what does this economy of attention look like ? What should we fear about it, or what should we hope from it ?
From neurosciences to sociology, from software design to philosophical ethics, a great diversity of disciplines are brought together here to shed light on the economy of attention from multiple critical perspectives.
Yves Citton is professor of literature at the Université de Grenoble-Alpes, a member of the umr LIRE (CNRS 5611) and codirector of the journal Multitudes. He recently published L’Avenir des humanités (La Découverte, 2010), Renverser l’insoutenable (Seuil, 2012) and Gestes d’humanités (Armand Colin 2012).