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In this presentation, D. Graham Burnett — one of the leaders in a rising movement focused on ATTENTION ACTIVISM and practices of collective attentional emancipation— will introduce some of the work of those currently advancing this vision, which engages the humanities and the sciences, and reaches toward transformative politics. In an era that has seen new forms of exploitative financialization of our cognitive and sensory capacities (in the form of the so-called “attention economy”), new thinking about the social and existential dimensions of human attention is urgently needed. Teachers and therapists need to be in the vanguard as we confront, together, the dehumanizing dimensions of the business model that underlies so much of what is so promising in the technological transformations of our time.
