Attention extraction operates at multiple scales demanding a many-zone coalition
Evidence
Human fracking is a systemic harm. It operates on multiple scales simultaneously. So it stands to reason that any resistance worth its salt will have to move nimbly from the realms of the intimate through the social, the intellectual, the political, the legal, and the technological, to the infrastructural—and back again. Each zone requires a different kind of activism. All of these ways of engaging the problem call on different skill sets and sensibilities. All of them are necessary. This is why we need all hands on deck: teachers and artists and builders and technologists and spiritual leaders and lawyers and parents and organizers and scholars and long-haul truckers and meditators and mediators and family and friends. Everybody—everybody!—has something to offer. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 240
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines the structural character of ‘human fracking’ as multi-scalar harm and names the zone-by-zone resistance it implies.
- XREF: Echoes Elinor Ostrom’s polycentric governance and the multi-level framing in ‘grafting’ essay’s ecosystem thinking.
Related
- An industry has channeled and commodified human attention like fracking extracts natural resources. (similarity 0.83)
- Attention extraction is a historical contingent result of human choice (similarity 0.82)
- Everyday gathering groups constitute schools of attention against fracking (similarity 0.81)
- Human fracking parallels industrial extraction of physical labor (similarity 0.80)
- Human fracking describes extracting hard-to-reach attention by industrial chemical-like force (similarity 0.80)
- The dispute over attention is ultimately an argument about what constitutes our humanity (similarity 0.80)
- Human fracking reduces persons and relationships to quantifiable commodities. (similarity 0.79)
- Every major social movement began by demanding collective attention (similarity 0.79)
- Human fracking extracts attentional capacities as industry once extracted physical ones. (similarity 0.78)
- The shared crisis unifies otherwise unrelated attentional practices (similarity 0.78)