Attention moves through shared systems just as bodies share material systems.

Evidence

The activating insight of the environmental movement was that all bodies are materially connected, and that, therefore, so is our physical health. The attention movement is teaching us a parallel lesson: that our attention is connected. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 479

Categorization

  • XREF: Deliberately repurposes the environmental movement’s ‘silent spring’ web-of-life argument as template for an attention commons. — connects to: Attention is socially and materially mediated, not just a scarce mental resource — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 26
  • SEED: Article angle: ‘the commons’ frame applied to cognition — what moves through all of us is as political as water.