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URL:https://blogs.uww.edu/catlst/events/the-sirens-call-book-club-4/
SUMMARY:The Siren's Call Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most End
 angered Resource\, by Chris Hayes\, Penguin Press\, 2025\n\nWe all feel it
 —the distraction\, the loss of focus\, the addictive focus on the wrong 
 things for too long. Something has changed utterly: For most of human hist
 ory\, the boundary between public and private has been clear\, at least in
  theory. Now\, as Chris Hayes writes\, “With the help of a few tech firm
 s\, we basically tore it down in about a decade.” Hayes argues that atte
 ntion has become a commodified resource extracted from us\, and from which
  we are increasingly alienated.\n\nSirens are designed to compel us\, and 
 now they are going off in our bedrooms and kitchens at all hours of the da
 y and night\, doing the bidding of vast empires\, the most valuable compan
 ies in history\, built on harvesting human attention. As Hayes shares\, 
 “Now our deepest neurological structures\, human evolution­ary inherita
 nces\, and social impulses are in a habitat designed to prey upon\, to cul
 tivate\, distort\, or destroy that which most fundamentally makes us human
 .” The goal of the Sirens’ Call is to help us wrest back control of ou
 r lives.\n\nMeeting dates:\nSeptember 24\nOctober 8\nOctober 22\nNovember 
 5\nNovember 19\nDecember 3\nWorkshop details\n\n 	Date: Thursday\, Novembe
 r 5\, 2026\n 	Time: 3:30 PM–4:30 PM Central Time\n 	Location: McGraw 1\n
  	Presenter: Amy Menzel and Dennis Elverman\n\nSign in to register\n\n
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