Attentional exploitation can be transformed into a basis for collective political identity

Evidence

New forms of exploitation invite new forms of political action, and create new political situations. With imagination and will, we can turn our shared attentional condition into a new kind of collective identity—and power. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 442

Categorization

Category: Inspiration and Speculation

• SEED: The essay angle: how a shared condition of harm becomes political identity — compare to how other exploited conditions (labor, environmental harms) crystallized into movements.

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• Attention politics begins when activists reframe private distress as collective injury (similarity 0.79)
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