Attention activism is pro-technology and rejects retrenchment

Evidence

Nevertheless, the Attention Activists call on King Ludd very sparingly. Most of the time, we can leave our hammers at home. Because Attention Activists don’t want to go backward, to a time before the internet, or before our phones, or before the staggering distributed computational systems that enable the conditions of twenty-first-century existence. We embrace this world, and the world heralded by these devices, and the sociotechnical infrastructure upon which they depend. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 264

Categorization

• XREF: Positions the movement against romantic anti-tech narratives; echoes craft argument in the reader’s tree essay on technology as infrastructure. — connects to: Attention activism is a reclamation project to defend against reduction to salable data — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 252; Rebuilding social webs is the goal, not means, of Attention Activism — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 319; Resistance to the attention economy must use the platforms themselves as tools — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 325 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Attention activism is a reclamation project to defend against reduction to salable data — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 252; Rebuilding social webs is the goal, not means, of Attention Activism — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 319; Resistance to the attention economy must use the platforms themselves as tools — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 325 (+2 more)