Uncapturable collective gathering time constitutes resistance to the Attention Economy.

Evidence

Actual organizing is essential to collective action in a rising movement. Every time we get together and give our time, mind, and senses to something or someone in a way that can’t be captured by the human frackers, we have a potential site of resistance to the Attention Economy. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 311

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Defines what actual organizing/resistance means in the manifesto’s terms: gathering that escapes capture by the fracking apparatus.
  • STORYSTEM: Could seed fiction about a community that deliberately makes its gatherings uncapturable — analog crafts, offline rituals — as quiet resistance.
  • XREF: connects to: Attention extraction reduces people to quantifiable commodities and demands collective remedy. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 32