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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