Everyday gathering groups constitute schools of attention against fracking

Evidence

The Friends of Attention use the language of “schools” in this spirit. Wherever people gather and practice ways of being together—there, world-building is underway. There, STUDY is happening. Consider churches. Mosques and synagogues and Zendos. Dance groups. Chess clubs. Jazz bands. Knitting circles. Surf groups. Tai chi in the park. Bachata in the street. Shakespeare in nursing homes. Fishing at the pier. These are communities of attention. They sustain, each in its own humble way, LIVABLE ALTERNATIVES to the ways of being that the attention frackers are continuously pumping—which make us unwell and strip us of the capacity to be with each other, ourselves, and the world. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 294

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines the extended sense of ‘school’ — the organizational form named in the manifesto’s program.
• SEED: Could be an essay on how mundane leisure communities (knitting circles, tai chi) serve as quiet resistance to attention extraction.

Related

• Everyday communal practices of attention are living alternatives to attention extraction. (similarity 0.88)
• Attention extraction operates at multiple scales demanding a many-zone coalition (similarity 0.81)
• Schools are wherever focused attention is collectively learned and practiced (similarity 0.81)
• Uncapturable collective gathering time constitutes resistance to the Attention Economy. (similarity 0.79)
• Every major social movement began by demanding collective attention (similarity 0.79)
• The attention activist network has remained small while its programs draw thousands (similarity 0.78)
• The commercial attention economy feeds on pre-existing civic community decline (similarity 0.78)