First Fridays
2025

With special guest, Amy Kurzweil!
And, a new practice from the Strother School of Radical Attention.

A look at the draft of the Attention Activism Toolkit, and an update from the Summer 2025 Organizing Fellows.
Plus! A new practice with Jahony Germosen.

• Attention Activism Toolkit (Draft)
• Chat Thread
• Minor Monument Exercise

Do we have a right to attention?
This week we consider the role the law has played in constructing the current forms of attention capitalism with special guest John Newman.

• Right to Attention Exercise
• Chat Thread

Thinking through draft material from the Attensity book manuscript.

• The Keyboard Exercise
• Chat Thread

Reports from SoRA’s organizing fellows in Rochester, NY, Arnaudville, LA, and Louisville, KY.

• Seeds of Sanctuary Warm-Up
• Chat Thread
• Kentucky Attn Club Slide Deck
• Finding Attention Slide Deck
• Craft as Sanctuary Short
• POWER-MAPPING Breakout Slides

Going behind the scenes of the Attention Economy with Chris Hayes, author of NY Times bestseller, The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource.
Plus! Updates from SoRA facilitator and Attention Justice Coordinator Quinn Marchman, and a warm-up exercise with Eve Mitchell.

• Chat Thread
• TV Delivers People,” Richard Serra, Carlotta Fay Schoolman, 1973.
• Sirens’ Prompt

Thinking through Attention and the Sublime with Johannes Wankhammer.
A sublime warm up with Vitoria Oliveira. 

• Chat Thread
• Attention and the Sublime

Thinking through the attentional legacy of Covid-19 with Christie George, creator of The Emergency was Curiosity.
And, a New Year Exercise with Raiane Cantisano.

• Chat Thread