Although he did not have the vocabulary to describe what later philosophers would call the ‘organisation of attention’, Baudelaire grasped the phenomenon intuitively. Strikingly, this anxiety is shared by the contemporary French philosopher, Bernard Stiegler, only about present-day digital media. Stiegler’s warning about digital media echoes this insight. This is where newspapers differ from digital media. Newspapers possess a built-in slowness — something that is seen as a limitation in the fast-paced world of the modern media.

Source: The Telegraph January 16, 2026 02:00 UTC