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yana yuhai • How to Pay Attention Again
am interested in a disciplined deepening of attention.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
the “third space”—not of retreat, but of refusal, boycott, and sabotage—can become a spectacle of noncompliance that registers on the larger scale of the public.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Given the sheer amount of media available to any person with an internet connection, we have no shortage of “witnesses” to atrocity. Forcing people to behold injustice is not enough. Nor is the goal to simply generate a reaction—any reaction—to injustice; such noise can easily become a passing clamor. The goal is to pull people into an active
... See moreKelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
To disrupt the systemic root causes of the threats and dangers that target the oppressed.
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politicizing Siegel's Window of Tolerance
L. M. Sacasas • Attending to the World
As children, few of us are taught to understand and prioritize our feelings. For the most part, the educational system doesn’t ask us to access our sensitivity, but to be obedient. To do what is expected. Our natural independent spirit is tamed. Free thought is constrained. There is a set of rules and expectations put upon us that is not about
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