Shared attentional practices are the movement’s only real resource
Evidence
No doubt there are forms of Attention Activism that are best practiced in isolation. But every true meditator needs their sangha. And while practicing your solo sax is good fun, it’s got nothing on jamming with a full band. Staying close to community can keep us on track. It’s how we know that we’re building a world in common—because a world that we share with others is the only kind that’s livable. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 327 (
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If ‘I’ can only be attentive to something to the extent that we pay attention to it – and if collective attention must be considered primary with respect to any effort at individual attention – this is precisely because this common ground of clichés in perpetual reprocessing conditions my ability to identify the phenomena encountered in my environment. The attention economy is in truth fundamentally collectivist. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Collective practice anchors and sustains attention activism — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 327; The shared crisis unifies otherwise unrelated attentional practices — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 437; Attention activism requires dedicated spaces for collective experimentation and care (+11 more)
Broader Connections
- Collective practice anchors and sustains attention activism
#corroborates(0.90) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 327 - Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality
#corroborates(0.85) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121 - Joint attention practices generate shared political power.
#corroborates(0.85) - Attention activism requires dedicated spaces for collective experimentation and care
#expands(0.80) - Any shared hands-on practice qualifies as attention resistance
#qualifies(0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 314 - Attention activists are defined by a sustained practice connecting them to the world
#expands(0.80) - Everyday communal practices of attention are living alternatives to attention extraction.
#expands(0.80) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 294 - Group solidarity can form through shared bodily practice, not shared ideas
#corroborates(0.80) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 686 - Attention activism organizes through study, coalition-building, and sanctuary spaces
#expands(0.80) - The shared crisis unifies otherwise unrelated attentional practices
#qualifies(0.75) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 437 - Attention activism requires collectively building attention’s public meaning
#expands(0.75) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 236 - Radical attention is rooted in proximate 1-to-1 scale practices
#qualifies(0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 314 - Structuring experience as shared practice prevents it from silencing others.
#expands(0.75) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 170 - Attention is the alignment that makes both individual and collective action possible
#expands(0.70) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 296