It's time to reclaim the Luddite

[erronis]

2. Thanks for this interesting post especially the bit about the Summer of Ludd and the Friends of Attention

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https://www.salon.com/2026/07/13/its-time-to-reclaim-the-luddite/

Among the organizations who participated in SoL is Friends of Attention, whose recently published book, "Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement," starts from the premise that in a limitless expanse of information, attention has value and tech companies mine it with a process the authors liken to “human fracking: pumping vast quantities of high-pressure media content into our faces to force up a spume of the vaporous and intimate stuff called attention, which now trades on the open market." The Quaker-inspired coalition also founded New York's Strother School of Radical Attention, which offers courses and workshops on attention as a practice that, maintained and exerted, makes it easier to recognize and refuse such extraction.