Atlas of Attention Activism

The Atlas of Attention Activism is a digital database mapping diverse initiatives in ATTENTION ACTIVISM from around the world. We bring together organizers working on diverse projects across art, education, politics, and more, as well as stewards of Attention Sanctuaries where this work is happening.

SoRA is a Brooklyn-based non-profit dedicated to ATTENTION ACTIVISM: the practices of study, organizing, and sanctuary-building that resist the harms of human fracking and advance the forms of attention conducive to human freedom.

In this spirit, we’re working to build (and nourish, and learn from) a network of other communities dedicated to the study and practice of human attention, in all its richness. We believe that shifting technologies and new political and economic pressures urgently demand diverse and distributed efforts of collective inquiry into human attention (its philosophical nature, its social powers, and its practical applications). This must happen at all levels — both in institutions, and outside them; from ivory towers to grass roots.

That's where you come in! If you are organizing your community to think about, talk about, practice, and/or share authentic attention, we'd love to have you in our network and to hear about what you are doing. The same goes for those of you who maintain Attention Sanctuaries—physical spaces with collective agreements on the forms of attention practiced there. 

If any of this applies to you, please email us at <strotherschool@sustainedattention.net>!