CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Epigraph

Preface

Introduction: Attention as a Cultural Problem

PART I: ENCOUNTERING THINGS

  1. The Jig, the Nudge, and Local Ecology

  2. Embodied Perception

  3. Virtual Reality as Moral Ideal

  4. Attention and Design

  5. Autism as a Design Principle: Gambling

INTERLUDE: A Brief History of Freedom

PART II: OTHER PEOPLE

  6. On Being Led Out

  7. Encountering Things with Other People

  8. Achieving Individuality

  9. The Culture of Performance

10. The Erotics of Attention

11. The Flattening

12. The Statistical Self

PART III: INHERITANCE

13. The Organ Makers’ Shop

Epilogue: Reclaiming the Real

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

A Note About the Author

Also by Matthew B. Crawford

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