Big Tech Is “Fracking” Your Attention. These Activists Are Fighting to Get It Back.
The Strother School of Radical Attention is hosting Attention Labs, where attendees explore radical human attention through group activities. The School is part of the Friends of Attention collective, which aims to reclaim attention from tech conglomerates through a collective movement. The movement is framed as a political manifesto, with the goal of engaging collective resistance against Big Tech's attention-sucking powers.
- ▪The Friends of Attention collective was founded in 2018 and includes artists, scholars, and activists.
- ▪The collective published Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement, which argues for a collective movement to reclaim attention from Big Tech.
- ▪The Attention Labs are designed to help participants develop radical human attention through various group activities and exercises.
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