What do medieval monks, Brazilian leftists and New York academics have in common? They all want to know where our attention has gone. How can we regain our focus?
Barclay Bram visits The Strother School of Radical Attention in New York to find out. The founders hope to build a political movement to fight big tech’s domination of our attention. Their methods might not be what you expect.
Guests and host:
- Barclay Bram, presenter and senior producer of ‘The Weekend Intelligence’
- D Graham Burnett, historian and co-founder of the Strother School of Radical Attention
- Alyssa Loh, filmmaker, writer, and faculty member at the Strother School of Radical Attention
- Peter Schmidt, programme director at the Strother School of Radical Attention
- Jamie Kreiner, historian of the early Middle Ages at UCLA
- Tim Wu, professor of law at Columbia University
Topics covered:
- The attention economy
- The history of attention
- Big tech
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