Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA. He is the author of The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance (2018) and The Politics of Education, 2nd edition (2018) and The Disaster of Resilience (Bloomsbury, 2023). He is a fellow of the National Educational Policy Center and a Fulbright Chair in Globalization and Culture.

Vividly written, richly theorized and uncomfortably familiar, this timely book documents the rise of the attention economy and the bio-political capture of children and young people by screen-use technologies. Precise in its cultural diagnosis and ideology critique, this is a must read for anyone interested in the ‘education drugs attention complex’ and the critical role of social philosophy to combating the worst excesses of this movement.

• Introduction: The Drug Attention Industrial Complex1. Smart Drugs: The Educational Trade in Attention2. Screen Addicts 3. Raging Hormones: Transgender Youth and the Ideology of Competition4. Trauma Doping: Anti-Anxiety Medication and the New Trauma Education Industries5. Race, Drugs, and the School to Prison Pipeline6. Enchanting Education for Democratic Affect or Getting Kids Hooked on TheoryConclusionReferencesIndex

Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA. He is the author of The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance (2018) and The Politics of Education, 2nd edition (2018) and The Disaster of Resilience (Bloomsbury, 2023). He is a fellow of the National Educational Policy Center and a Fulbright Chair in Globalization and Culture.

Vividly written, richly theorized and uncomfortably familiar, this timely book documents the rise of the attention economy and the bio-political capture of children and young people by screen-use technologies. Precise in its cultural diagnosis and ideology critique, this is a must read for anyone interested in the ‘education drugs attention complex’ and the critical role of social philosophy to combating the worst excesses of this movement.

• Introduction: The Drug Attention Industrial Complex1. Smart Drugs: The Educational Trade in Attention2. Screen Addicts 3. Raging Hormones: Transgender Youth and the Ideology of Competition4. Trauma Doping: Anti-Anxiety Medication and the New Trauma Education Industries5. Race, Drugs, and the School to Prison Pipeline6. Enchanting Education for Democratic Affect or Getting Kids Hooked on TheoryConclusionReferencesIndex

Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA. He is the author of The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance (2018) and The Politics of Education, 2nd edition (2018) and The Disaster of Resilience (Bloomsbury, 2023). He is a fellow of the National Educational Policy Center and a Fulbright Chair in Globalization and Culture.

Vividly written, richly theorized and uncomfortably familiar, this timely book documents the rise of the attention economy and the bio-political capture of children and young people by screen-use technologies. Precise in its cultural diagnosis and ideology critique, this is a must read for anyone interested in the ‘education drugs attention complex’ and the critical role of social philosophy to combating the worst excesses of this movement.

• Introduction: The Drug Attention Industrial Complex1. Smart Drugs: The Educational Trade in Attention2. Screen Addicts 3. Raging Hormones: Transgender Youth and the Ideology of Competition4. Trauma Doping: Anti-Anxiety Medication and the New Trauma Education Industries5. Race, Drugs, and the School to Prison Pipeline6. Enchanting Education for Democratic Affect or Getting Kids Hooked on TheoryConclusionReferencesIndex