miscellaneous/2025/08/05/attention

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Attention | leviv.cool

In high school I remember being shown the short film ‘HYPER-REALITY’ by Keiichi Matsuda. The futuristic overstimulating six minutes had stuck with me throughout the years, and it was a piece of media that I found myself recalling every time that I was faced with extremely agregious forms of advertising - like the first time I went to Times Square.

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[craigprotzel]

Tim Wu is great! He teaches at Columbia. I've read chapters of "The Master Switch". Have not read "Attention Merchants" but have heard good things