Sanctuaries must restore non-monetizable forms of attention and a feeling of agency

Evidence

Where we can remember that it feels good to give our mind, time, senses to the stuff and the beings we actually care about—not all of which can come through a screen, or be serviced by the attentional habits trained up by our Silicon Valley screen-barons. Spaces where we can reconnect to a feeling of attentional agency, and where we can explore and foster new and other forms of attention, that are not the single (monetizable) variety over-cultivated and continuously pump-and-dumped in the frackosphere. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 344

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete specification of what a sanctuary must actually do — restore agency and alternative attentional forms.
• SEED: Essay angle: what non-screen attentional practices actually exist in the reader’s life that a screen-barons’ logic cannot service.