Joint attention practices open up shared political power alongside beauty and grace.

Evidence

These attentionauts and attentionistas draw on the wisdom of diverse traditions. Across uncharted terrain, emerging practices of joint attention illuminate new horizons of shared political power. Not only power, but beauty, and grace, too. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 37

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the coinages ‘attentionauts’/‘attentionistas’ and the idea of joint attention as a shared political resource.
• XREF: ‘Joint attention’ as collective political power parallels participatory culture and commons-theory thinking elsewhere in the reader’s corpus. — connects to: Joint attention practices generate shared political power.; Attention is the alignment that makes both individual and collective action possible — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 296; Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Joint attention practices generate shared political power. #corroborates (0.95)
• Attention is the alignment that makes both individual and collective action possible #expands (0.80) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 296
• Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality #expands (0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121
• Free, shared attention is named and offered as a transformative good. #expands (0.75)