Face-to-face organizing that escapes capture constitutes resistance to the Attention Economy.
Evidence
Actual organizing is essential to collective action in a rising movement. Every time we get together and give our time, mind, and senses to something or someone in a way that can’t be captured by the human frackers, we have a potential site of resistance to the Attention Economy. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 311
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines what counts as a ‘site of resistance’ against the Attention Economy: giving attention in ways not capturable by extraction.
- XREF: connects to: Uncapturable collective gathering time constitutes resistance to the Attention Economy. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 311; Resistance to the attention economy must use the platforms themselves as tools — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 325; Resistance must use the same platforms that extract attention — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 325 (+6 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Uncapturable collective gathering time constitutes resistance to the Attention Economy. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 311; Resistance to the attention economy must use the platforms themselves as tools — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 325; Resistance must use the same platforms that extract attention — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 325 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Uncapturable collective gathering time constitutes resistance to the Attention Economy.
#corroborates(0.95) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 311 - Individual resistance is too weak to counter coercive organizational pressure
#complicates(0.74) - Attention can be deliberately wielded, not just reclaimed
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