Attention activists can weaponize inherited everyday tools nonviolently

Evidence

It’s a dramatic image, but not an absurd one to invoke in our own moment. For the Attention Activist it is a reminder that our inherited tools—what we have to hand, what we can take up and use—are our arsenal as we get serious about defending ourselves against the frackers. What can we grab, and take into this nonviolent fight? — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 426 (#expands, via linked claim)

We are going to defeat the human frackers in THIS world, not some fantasy world where everyone spends all day making sourdough bread or walking along the beach. Like any underground resistance, we will use the very tools that are harming us to effect the revolution. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 325 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Ever since the Peabody informed me that I couldn’t use the image for my book project, I decided to use it however and whenever I wanted. Shonrael, an excellent graphic designer, made the shirts as well as business cards with my contact information, as people often asked for it at events—especially if I was wearing my tee. I found that it had a profound impact on people: they wanted to know who Renty was, and I was happy to tell them. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 570 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Inherited everyday tools can be rearmed for resistance — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 426; Resistance to the attention economy must use the platforms themselves as tools — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 325; Counter-violence can prise open restrictive structures and create new possibilities (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Inherited everyday tools can be rearmed for resistance #expands (0.92) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 426
• Resistance to the attention economy must use the platforms themselves as tools #corroborates (0.85) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 325
• Descendants turn contested ownership of images into public advocacy tools #exemplifies (0.75) — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 570
• Counter-violence can prise open restrictive structures and create new possibilities #complicates (0.72)