Living in the age of the attention economy | Bence Nanay

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Bence Nanay discusses society's evolving attention span.

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We are living in the age of the attention economy. Every extra second we spend scrolling is monetised. In this talk, Bence Nanay explores the societal costs of our waning attention.

#WaningAttention #AttentionAndAddiction #AntiFocusEconomy

Bence Nanay is a Professor of Philosophy, whose research focuses on philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology and aesthetics. He is co-director of the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp and also Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse, Cambridge University.

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