The shared crisis unifies otherwise unrelated attentional practices

Evidence

Under ordinary circumstances, this seems like a perfectly random assortment of goings-on. But under the perfectly non-ordinary conditions of our collective confrontation with human fracking, each of these activities becomes a valuable part of what we all need to bring to the barricades, what we need to bring to the banquet we’ll share once we’ve walled out the dark artists of spirit-commodification! — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 437

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The barricade-and-banquet pairing enacts the same infrastructure/collective dynamics this reader explores in ‘Grafting & Growth’ — assembling disparate resources into a living system under threat.
• XREF: connects to: A sudden common spectacle can dissolve interpersonal conflict into ‘we’ experience; Radical attention is rooted in proximate 1-to-1 scale practices — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 314; Climate inattention is a collective failure to dedicate attentional resources — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 520 (+2 more)