Expanding the Attention Curriculum with the Strother School’s “Attention Activist” teachers.
Special warm-up with Sasha Wizansky and Pencil magazine

• Chat Thread
• Attention Curriculum Presentations

Presented by Strother School facilitator Eve Mitchell
And a warm-up exercise with Jahony Germosen, Conjuring Sanctuary

• Chat Thread
• Attention Sanctuary Working Group: Sanctuary Guidelines

Thinking on new strategies for networked collective action, with special guest Etienne Turpin.

• Chat Thread
• Emoji Translation Exercise
• Emojis, Attention, and Climate Presentation Slides

People are evidently inclined to grant legitimacy to anything that is or seems inevitable no matter how painful it may be. Otherwise, the pain might be intolerable. The conquest of this sense of inevitability is essential to the development of politically effective moral outrage. For this to happen, people must perceive and define their situation as the consequence of human injustice.

Barrington Moore

A report on the 2024 Politics of Attention VI residency, Attention and the Law. 

• Chat Thread
• The Diamond Exercise
• Attention and the Law Reading Packets
• Presentation on Politics of Attention VI

A conversation with Elisa Tamarkin on attention, relevance, and irrelevance, and an exercise in “Silence as Speech.”
Plus, a special report from Friend of Attention Julian Chehirian on the “searchlight” attention-effects in his collaborative installation at this year’s Venice Biennial.

• Chat Thread

A conversation with special guest Professor Carolin Duttlinger on her book Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture.

• Chat Thread
• Screenshot Vivant, with Claudia Claremi.

A conversation with musicologist Natalie Miller on immersive soundscapes.
And, an exercise in listening and looking, along with the video for the exercise.

• Chat Thread
• Presentation slides for Attention, Music, and Immersion

A conversation with critic and journalist Sophie Haigney on How Group Chats Rule the World!
An exercise in Mapping the Chat. And the Maps of the Chat!

• The Group Chat
• Sophie Haigney, How Group Chats Rule the World

Reflections on the Rhetorics of Attention with friend of attention, David Landes!
And, an exercise in Alethic Attention.

• Chat Thread
• Mark Twain, Two Ways of Seeing a River
• Rhetorics of Attention Collaborative Working Doc