❄️MattK💨@pluralistic I don’t like to bother, but this is EXTREMELY YOUR SHIT. I’m reading it and shocked you’re not one of the blurbs. #Attensity is well designed and has the delicious new concept of #HumanFracking.
Also the book is gorgeous inside
Wess DanielsAs my friend said to me,”don’t walk, run to your local bookstore and pick this book up.” It’s Amazing! So much of what I’ve been thinking and teaching said so well. Has #forkiverse crew vibes all over it.
schoolofattention.org
Eva ListKeep your attention in shape
#deutschland3000 #jeanninemichaelsen #evaschulz #attensity #friendsofattention
Deine Aufmerksamkeit gehört DIR.
Hol sie dir zurück.
FUCK ALGORITHM
FOCUS AWARNESS
Miguel Afonso Caetano"Yes, new technologies give rise to new kinds of exploitation and resistance. But new forms of exploitation can even give rise to genuinely new forms of politics. You couldn’t brutalise an industrial proletariat before the factory system. Steam engines set the conditions of possibility for this development. They weren’t themselves a “problem”, of course; they gleamed and were precise and powerful. Who could see them operate without awe? But they also created a world in which it was possible to aggregate and extract physical labour from human beings in a revolutionary way. Along the way, they created a new kind of political subject, Homo economicus, a person who had been reduced, in the calculus of modernity, to “labuor value”. Actual revolutions followed – and a new kind of politics was born which reflected a new world of industrial labour, and new forms of labour solidarity, such as unions and workers’ parties.
The new system of human fracking is turning all of us into attentional subjects in a powerful new way. Homo attentus is the end user of every networked system – economic, political, expressive. With this new form of life comes, as we have discovered, appalling new vulnerability. But we are on the brink of understanding the new power that has come into our hands in the fracklands. We believe a new kind of politics beckons. What will it look like? It is hard to say. And there are reasons to be fearful. But if we, the people, can take up the banner of a new kind of freedom movement – a movement for the true freedom of attention itself, what we call attensity – and deploy our truly human attention in new ways, with a new understanding of the stakes, we can defy the frackers, and insist on creating, together, a human world."
#BigTech #HumanFracking #AttentionEconomy #Attensity #SocialMedia #CellPhones
Benoît JonesHow can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’? | Technology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/18/how-can-we-defend-ourselves-from-the-new-plague-of-human-fracking
This article is written by a new group called "Friends Of Attention". They identify that big tech is using up and monetising our attention, which we could be directing towards making a better world / human flourishing. They propose we form alliances to combat this.