As attention becomes a new form of capital in the networks of contest, art can function to turn attention from flowing within the channels of accumulation and competition, to focusing on them instead–to suss their mechanisms and effects. Art must remain a critical enterprise (and resist being a spectacularized one). If art employs the ubiquitous techniques of computation–as it will more and more–then it must do so self-consciously and critically, making visible the connection between the technical, social, political, and intellectual circumstances of its context.