The Attention Lease

What you rent when you scroll.

You never signed a lease on your glance, but the rent still comes due in traffic on I-275, in the hospital lot, at dinner, and in a school portal before the house is awake. The feed is not a habit you forgot to break. It is a landlord with keys to the morning, the shift, and the twenty quiet minutes you thought belonged to you. This book names the collection route, the late fees, and the lock on a door most people still call a phone.