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Strother School of Radical Attention

@schoolofattention.bsky.social
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A radical learning space for resisting the commodification of attention. Join our courses, discussions, and experiments below. linktr.ee/strotherschool

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
WE’RE HIRING! 📡 Our team is accepting applications for the position of ACADEMIC DEAN. 📚 The Dean will oversee SoRA’s academic seminar programming.
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🕊️ What does it take to make peace? Join us for PEACEMAKING — a deep dive into the history and practice of attention in conflict resolution, led by Andrea Bartoli, President of the Sant’Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue.
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JUNO! @junotdraws.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Hey guys! Really excited to announce that I will be part of n upcoming exhibition happening at the SoRA Sanctuary! You can find more info through @schoolofattention.bsky.social !
A graphic poster promoting the upcoming EYES UP! Poster Art For Attention Activism exhibition at Strother School of Radical Attention. In the center is a light green box with two green (left is warm, right is cool) semi circles with a photographed eye in the middle. The backdrop is blue. In yellow text, the poster states:

EYES UP! 
Poster Art for Attention Activism
Opening Reception
at the SoRA Sanctuary Gallery
55 Washington Street, Ste. 736, Brooklyn, NY
07.24 6:30-8:30
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🎧 What does it mean to be a "FAN" in a time of streaming and algorithmic music taste? 🎧 Join us for for our seminar on POP FANDOMS, where we’re diving into music, celebrities, and the communities that form around them! Enroll now: www.schoolofattention.org/enroll/p/fan...
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
New from The Empty Cup: we're collecting meditations on the political valence(s) of slowing down open.substack.com/pub/schoolof...
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Hurry Up and Linger
Weighing the politics of slowness
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
New! We're exploring ambient media over at The Empty Cup. Hope you'll join us... schoolofattention.substack.com
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Will the humanities survive artificial intelligence? SoRA co-founder D. Graham Burnett grapples with teaching and learning in the age of AI in @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
📸 Slow Photography Workshop: Relearn How to See (ONLY 3 Mondays, NYC) 🔗 Sign up here: shorturl.at/DpyHs We take thousands of photos—but how many do we truly see? In this hands-on workshop, we’re stripping photography back to its roots: pinhole cameras, paper negatives, and chemical processing.
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LONG-FORM CAPTURE (4/28 - 5/12)
At its inception, photography was a slow and technical effort. Making an image required attention to physical, chemical, and mechanical processes that unfolded on various timescales. This seminar will...
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🐎 VoA 007 👁️‍🗨️ Pazyryk Horse Tattoos Credit: The State Hermitage Museum, via Archaeology Magazine @state_hermitage_museum @archaeologymagazine #attentionspan #horsetattoos #altaimountains #attentionactivism
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
VoA 006 ⚜️ SILENCE=DEATH, 1987 The SILENCE=DEATH project was founded in 1985 by Avram Finkelstein, Brian Howard, Oliver Johnston, Charles Kreloff, Chris Lione, and Jorge Socarrás.
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
www.schoolofattention.org/enroll/p/sou... ℹ️ Take SoRA’s SOUNDSCAPING Class On Monday the 31st, for 3 weeks, You will start in the beautiful studio space , then make way to the streets of NYC A curated mix of electronic music, everyday sounds, headphone tours, and contour drawings …
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How to actively listen? — The Strother School of Radical Attention
Drawing inspiration from artists such as Francisco López, and Christina Kubisch, we will expand auditory awareness through durational exercises that incorporate drawing, movement, sounding, and learni...
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
VoA 005 📒 The Village School by Jan Steen c. 1670 Jan Steen’s 17th-century painting The Village School has intrigued historians and psychologists alike as perhaps the earliest portrayal of modern day Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🔔 Hear that? That’s the sound of PEER REVIEW! A new paper from D. Graham Burnett and Eve Mitchell, published today by the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (@nyasciences) nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
⚡️An artist, an astronomer, and an art historian walk into a room… That spirit of dynamic dialogue filled the Sanctuary Gallery at the opening of Artifacts, our current exhibition on view through May 8. www.schoolofattention.org/sanctuary-ga...
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
VoA 004 🍇 Zeuxis and Parrhasius, 4th Century B.C. Zeuxis painting the portrait of Juno from the features of five different women; (below) Parrhasius deceives onlookers with a painting of a veil over a painting, and birds with a painting of grapes.
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Gracias @telemundo.bsky.social! We loved having you at the school. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CFH...
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El lado oscuro de la tecnología: expertos explican por qué usuarios pasan horas viendo el celular
YouTube video by Al Rojo Vivo
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🎧 Listen here! 🎧 SoRA's Program Director Peter Schmidt joins Gwen Olton and Alexandria Hoang to talk ATTENTION ACTIVISM with @wxxirochester.bsky.social's Evan Dawson. www.wxxinews.org/show/connect...
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How to regain our attention span and resist "attention fracking"
In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on 2/19/25, our guests explain how technology has led to "attention fracking," and what experts recommend we do to rebuild our attention span.
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
JOIN US TONIGHT Dumbo, Brooklyn ❤️‍🔥🤝 www.schoolofattention.org/programs/att...
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
✨Today, February 17, 2025 6:30 PM 9:00 PM SoRA team will share the fundamentals of facilitating collective practices of attention. Over two hours, participants will acquire a working toolkit and will facilitate practices for a group of their peers. (Free, donation based workshop & open to all!)
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
VoA 003 // PART 1 Saburo Murakami, Passage, 1956, performed at the 2nd Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Kaikan hall, Tokyo
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
VoA 002 🎥
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Visions of Attention Edition 001: Francis Barraud, His Master’s Voice, 1899
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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
💚VoA💚 Tune in every Sunday, on leisure time, after attempting(🤭) &/or working that crossword puzzle. 🗞️ #takebacktech #artphilosophy #attentionseeker #attentionattention #attentiontodetail #brainrotcore #attentionspanofagoldfish #attentionspan #artandpolitics #arthistory #artanalysis #education
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