In her book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, artist and technology critic Jenny Odell articulated the driving relationship among attention span, speed, and low-quality news. She lamented that the capitalistic pressure to “colonize the self,” to treat our bodies and minds like productivity machines, is identical to that which colonizes our time with excess news. “Those same means by which we give over our hours and days [to work] are the same with which we assault ourselves with information and misinformation, at a rate that is frankly inhumane,” wrote Odell.
