{"product_id":"radical-attention-1","title":"Radical Attention","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Julia Bell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003epublished 17 September 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew edition with a foreword by Grace Blakeley and an afterword by the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent years tech companies have turned attention into a commodity, a resource to be mined and sold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe terms of the deal appear simple: in exchange for our attention we receive information, entertainment, and convenience. But what are the hidden costs? And what happens to our inner lives when we lose the ability to decide how we wish to pay attention?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this essay, at once personal and polemical, meditative and militant, Julia Bell examines big tech’s wide-ranging and extractive assault on human attention, while asking how we might reclaim it. Selected by Ali Smith as one of the five most important books to navigate the next twenty years, this new edition features a new foreword by radical economist Grace Blakeley and an afterword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJULIA BELL is a writer and Professor of New Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. Her work includes poetry, lyric essays and short stories published in \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe White Review \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e, and recorded for the BBC. She has published three novels with Macmillan\/Simon \u0026amp; Schuster US and is co-editor of the bestselling \u003cem\u003eCreative Writing Coursebook\u003c\/em\u003e (Macmillan). Her new book \u003cem\u003eBetween the Lines: Life Lessons from the Writing Workshop\u003c\/em\u003e is published by Simon \u0026amp; Schuster in May 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peninsula Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58264589402499,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/6230\/5432\/files\/RadicalAttention2editioncover.png?v=1781690511","url":"https:\/\/peninsulapress.co.uk\/products\/radical-attention-1","provider":"Peninsula Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}