POL 261: Politics of Attention at Borough of Manhattan Community College
4 credits · Spring 2027
Politics of Attention (POL 261) at Borough of Manhattan Community College has 1 way to take it in Spring 2027. 1 of 1 section has an open seat right now.
The professor is: Peter Bratsis.
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Requirements
Prerequisite: Any Social Science Course
About this course
We live in an age where our capacity to focus and pay attention has become the target of a digitized capitalism that has commodified our gaze and attempted to colonize our desires and dreams. This class is both an attempt to more fully understand the political and cultural implications of this attention economy and an attempt to regain some of our ability to concentrate. Each weekly class will be four hours long which will include two hours of us sitting together and reading in silence. Topics and ideas to be covered will include capitalist automation, the ecology of attention, alienation and fetishism, speed and everyday life, the status of images and spectacle in our cultures, our 'leisure time' and amusement as productive labor, platform capitalism and monopoly rents, and the loss of the ability to create.
Professors for POL 261 at Borough of Manhattan CC, Spring 2027
- Peter BratsisChill Rank 3 of 5: Fair?
1 section · 1 open · ★ 3.7 (45) · difficulty 2.3/5 · 57% would take again
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POL 261 sections, times and seats
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Questions about POL 261 at Borough of Manhattan CC
- Who teaches POL 261 at Borough of Manhattan CC in Spring 2027?
- Peter Bratsis is listed for Spring 2027. Each name links to a page with their Chill Rank and Rate My Professors numbers.
- Is POL 261 at Borough of Manhattan CC hard?
- It depends on the professor. Across the 1 professor with a Chill Rank, students on Rate My Professors give an average difficulty of 2.3 out of 5. The Chill Rank above compares them directly.
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