Attention Stuffed 
Our future rests on our capacity to make digital technology more boring.
Spring 2025
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Attention Stuffed
Know Your Enemy: Becoming Elon Musk, Part Two
In the second of two episodes on Elon Musk, Matt and Sam examine key moments in the billionaire’s political derangement, his purchase of Twitter, and his role in Trump’s second term.
Know Your Enemy: Becoming Elon Musk, Part One
In the first of two episodes on Elon Musk, Matt and Sam explore the billionaire’s fraught adolescence and first years in Silicon Valley.
Know Your Enemy: Pay Attention!
Matt and Sam are joined by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes to discuss his new book The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource.
The Economy of Influence
A conversation with Emily Hund, the author of The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media.
The Desert of the Virtual
The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems.
The Blurred Boundaries of Art and Politics
A conversation with Ben Davis, the author of Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy.
The Meaning of the Protests in Cuba
The July 11 protests fused economic and political grievances. A struggle is taking place in Cuba over what happens next.
Digital Corbynism
In the UK, the left no longer has a party, but it may still have the tools necessary for retaking it—tools that can be improved, remodeled, and reorganized.
Social Media’s Sad Passions
The more acceptable it is to denounce people because of their speech, the more likely it is that it will eventually happen to you.
How a Campus Protest Galvanized the Turkish Opposition
The Turkish government’s crackdown on protests at Boğaziçi University earlier this year has brought together the broadest coalition of AKP opponents since the 2013 Gezi Park protests.
Content Control
An interview with Jillian C. York, the author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism.
Hello to My Haters: Tucker Carlson’s Mob and Me
What else is a talk show in a class society for?
Old Millennial Yells at Cloud
Good politics don’t protect you from the pathologies of the internet.
Suicide, Watch
“Jilly determined to wait at least four hours before checking the status of her farewell post so she wouldn’t look desperate, but then she remembered that she didn’t have long left. . . .” A short story.
