A new kind of political being, homo attentus, will reshape politics.

Evidence

We suspect so. And Homo attentus will be a new kind of creature—capable of giving shape to new worlds through the collective enactment of new kinds of attentional freedom. The very nature of politics will be transformed. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 461

Categorization

Category: Inspiration and Speculation

• QUESTION: What exactly would attentional freedom consist of and be enacted through, concretely? The manifesto gestures but hasn’t specified mechanics here.

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