The attention economy — the will to be seen as the engine of the spectacle

echoes

Early text: Amber Moltke's fame-hunger: "To distinguish themselves from the great huge faceless mass of folks that watched the folks that did stand out."; "To be known, to matter, she said."; "to feel people’s eyes, the weight of their gaze" [the Cavalier / mesa stretch]
IJ echo: IJ's preoccupation with being watched / worshipping attention — Orin's need to be desired by stadium-scale crowds, Hal's performance-anxiety, the novel's diagnosis of the U.S. self organized around spectation and being spectated. Amber supplies the demand side the suffering/celebrity apparatus feeds: fame as ontological confirmation.
Weight: shared-preoccupation (oeuvre-scoped)