The Sirens' Call
How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes 2025 Beaverton 306.342 HAY
p001 The Sirens' Call
p001 Odysseus, Circe, and the Sirens
p003 William James The Principles of Psychology 1890 My experience is what I agree to attend to.
- p005 The phones are warbling us to death.
p006 Jonathan Haidt 2024 The Anxious Generation smart-phones -> depression, anxiety, and self-harm
p007 Stanley Cohen 1972 Folk Devils and Moral Panics
p010 Johann Hari 2022 Stolen Focus
p016 Naomi Klein 1999 No Logo
p018 Walter Lippman 1925 The Phantom Public
p027 The Slot Machine and Uncle Sam
p030 voluntary attention Ball passing and gorilla The Invisible Gorilla book WCCLS, Beaverton
p031 involuntary attention siren, crash of dishes
- p036 social attention - noticing a mention of your name while focusing on something else
p059 The Root of Evil
p081 Social Attention
p115 Alienation
p155 Dawn of the Attention Age
p195 Public Attention
p251 Reclaiming Our Minds
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