The crisis of experience in the age of algorithmic attention
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Neofetou, D. 2025. The crisis of experience in the age of algorithmic attention. London Conference in Critical Thought 2025. London, UK 20 - 21 Jun 2025
Title | The crisis of experience in the age of algorithmic attention |
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Authors | Neofetou, D. |
Abstract | In the early decades of the Twentieth Century, theorists, most notably Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, observed how the temporal registers of capitalism were tendentially In recent years, this crisis of experience has only intensified, with everyday life fundamentally shaped by social media, algorithmic feeds, and digital surveillance. Theorists and philosophers as diverse as Jonathan Crary, Byung-Chul Han, Bernard Stiegler, Yuk Hui, Wendy Chun, and Anna Kornbluh have all stressed how contemporary capitalism deepens the fragmentation of subjectivity, replacing sustained attention, memory, and historical continuity with compulsive immediacy, algorithmic habituation, and the relentless extraction of cognitive and affective labor. Many of these contemporary theorists call for an effective recovery of Erfahrung—whether through cognitive mapping (Kornbluh), reclaiming shared attention (Crary), rethinking |
Sustainable Development Goals | 12 Responsible consumption and production |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Conference | London Conference in Critical Thought 2025 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 05 Mar 2025 |
Output status | Accepted |
https://repository.mdx.ac.uk/item/212645
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