Sunday March 22, 2026 at 11:30am
This month we dive into The Friends of Attention’s ATTENSITY! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement. A rallying cry to fight the commodification of human attention with the tools we need to reclaim our humanity, by a group of writers, artists, and activists in the vanguard of the movement. Part of the Strother School of Attention.
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The full 2026 reading list spans everything from attention liberation to surveillance technology, with special selections for Poetry Month and Pride Month. We hope you’ll join us as we explore the texts that remind us how to stay awake, stay engaged, and stay human.
Tickets: Non-Members $10 / TSL Members, Free. Advance registration requested.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
The Friends of Attention is a collective of activists, artists, and thinkers. Three editors and long-standing “Friends” helped Attensity! take shape: D. Graham Burnett is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of history of science at Princeton University. Alyssa Loh, a filmmaker, co-directed the short film Twelve Theses on Attention. Peter Schmidt is the Program Director of the Strother School of Radical Attention.
CLICK HERE to watch a short interview with the authors.
“Pay attention: If you are human, you must read this book.”
—JARON LANIER (author of You Are Not a Gadget)
“A stirring battle cry on behalf of our shared humanity against the forces that seek to diminish and degrade it.”
—CHRIS HAYES (author of The Sirens’ Call)
“A thrilling declaration of independence from tech’s tyranny over our human spirits.”
—DANIELLE ALLEN (author of Our Declaration)
