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Shut Up and Chant

Recipes for the Attention Insurgency
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Let's face it. Whatever attention the ubiquitous brain rot of the smartphone dosed on social media fails to exploit, the AI prompt will surely slurp up as global markets and technologies get in cahoots to harvest the totality of human attention--and, by extension, our self-awareness. Look it up for yourself: More information does not seem to help the situation. And so in our attention insurgency, we turn off our phones, turn away from the AI, get quiet, and begin to chant. Chant along as we recount the neuroscience that teaches you how to turn off the ego, tune in to the mad expanses within, and drop out of the disinformation pandemic. Spiral along with early info victim Philip K. Dick into the negentropic vortex and emerge brimming with schemes for hacking your own consciousness with Finnegans Wake. Shut Up and Chant invites you to finally shut up, chant, breathe, read, and dream with the authors in our attention insurgency. Hurry up, please--it's time to shut up and chant.
Trey Conner is an associate professor of English at the University of South Florida. He is the coauthor, with Richard Doyle, of Wyrd to the Wiki: Lacunae Toward Wiki Ontologies. Richard Doyle is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and the author or editor of numerous books, including Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living and On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences.
"The authors have made a terrific case for the significance of shutting up and chanting in the current moment. The remarkable reach of this book not only across academic fields (neurocognitive sciences, psychedelic studies, literary studies, history and philosophy of science, and science and technology studies) but out beyond academic argument and into the psychic DNA of the reader is a major contribution to these fields and a magnificent jolt to the reader."--Elizabeth A. Wilson, coauthor of A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: Foundations for Affect Theory
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