Resisting attention extraction means refusing the enemy’s definition of attention

Evidence

Taking back our attention from the human frackers doesn’t mean fighting in their ring by their rules. That would be already to lose. We don’t want to scrap for slightly longer “attention spans,” or use their apps to train ourselves to a higher pitch of cybernetic “focus.” We want human attention, OUR attention—the fullness of that, in all its radical and revolutionary power. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 160

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: This is the manifesto’s climactic strategic claim: the fight cannot be won on the terms set by the extractors, because those terms already concede what attention is. Refusing the ring is the whole program in one move.