Der Intellektuelle als Yogi

The Digital Revolution is not just an attack on the foundations of attention and intellectualism - its effects are at the same time a challenge for intellectuals, who are all too often only able to react to this with perplexity and acrobatics of thought. Hans-Willi Weis, on the other hand, invites the reader on a sightseeing tour through intellectual Zeitgeist discourses. He connects the dots between the critique of outdated discourses, and a practice of attention which revitalizes thought and the discursive, and shows how we are individually capable of tackling the digital diffusion of attention and the compulsions of unlimited net activity through exercising methodical interruption.