The attention activist network has remained small while its programs draw thousands

Evidence

The Friends number something like 150 people, we figure—give or take. But we have never counted. It’s a coalition of the willing. Now thousands pass through the doors of the School of Radical Attention, to do free “Attention Labs” and participate in our organizing programs and street pedagogy. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 28

Categorization

• QUESTION: The reader testing the manifesto’s bet should ask: does a ‘coalition of the willing’ that never counts itself actually scale to collective remedy, or is this a vanguardist model?