Attention activism requires dedicated spaces for collective experimentation and care

Evidence

Finally, Attention Activism means the formation of SANCTUARIES—spaces where people can gather, care for each other, experiment with different kinds of attention, and conceive brighter futures. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 335

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Pins down the third pillar of the activism program: sanctuaries as spaces of collective attention practice.

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• Attention Activism operates through study, coalition-building, and sanctuaries. (similarity 0.89)
• A three-part program of study, coalition-building, and sanctuaries forms the proposed response. (similarity 0.88)
• True attention survives only in carved-out sanctuaries, not by singular events. (similarity 0.87)
• Sanctuaries must restore non-monetizable forms of attention and a feeling of agency (similarity 0.84)
• Collective practice anchors and sustains attention activism (similarity 0.84)
• Attention sanctuaries exist now but hide because they are endangered. (similarity 0.83)
• Attention sanctuaries require explicit written community agreements (similarity 0.82)
• Artists, thinkers, and activists already practicing attention are the movement’s vanguard. (similarity 0.81)
• Everyday communal practices of attention are living alternatives to attention extraction. (similarity 0.81)
• Attention activism can be screened by whether activity builds shared, owned connection (similarity 0.81)
• Attention activism requires collectively building attention’s public meaning (similarity 0.81)
• Attention activism began as an organized collective response to a perceived crisis. (similarity 0.80)
• Shared attentional practices are the movement’s only real resource (similarity 0.80)
• Attention is the substrate of care for self, community, and planet. (similarity 0.80)
• Schools are wherever focused attention is collectively learned and practiced (similarity 0.78)