Attention activism began as an organized collective response to a perceived crisis.

Evidence

The Friends of Attention are a nonprofit coalition of creative collaborators, colleagues, and actual friends who share an interest in “ATTENTION ACTIVISM.” The Friends emerged in the wake of the 2018 São Paulo Biennial, where many of the initial community were involved in a program on “Practices of Attention.” Responding to an expanding sense of crisis, eighteen artists, scholars, and activists gathered in the summer of 2019 for a weeklong residency, “The Politics of Attention: Art, Time, Technology, Action,” where the group began to take shape in collective reading, writing, and interventions. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 511

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Establishes the operative definition of ‘Attention Activism’ as a collective, organizationally embodied practice rather than an individual posture.

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• Attention Activism operates through study, coalition-building, and sanctuaries. (similarity 0.81)
• Every major social movement began by demanding collective attention (similarity 0.81)
• Attention activism requires dedicated spaces for collective experimentation and care (similarity 0.80)
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• The attention activist network has remained small while its programs draw thousands (similarity 0.80)
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• A three-part program of study, coalition-building, and sanctuaries forms the proposed response. (similarity 0.80)
• The group organized as a Quaker-inspired coalition model (similarity 0.79)
• Shared attentional practices are the movement’s only real resource (similarity 0.79)
• Attention is the defining political and existential question of the current era (similarity 0.78)