unCommon Authors, an Author Video Series: ATTENSITY! by The Friends of Attention

By Coll Rowe | January 29 2026 | All-School ReadsCollege & University Reads

PRH Education/Common Reads presents:

unCommon Authors
unCommon Authors is a monthly video series highlighting exceptional and
unique authors talking about their books.

 

Attensity! is a rallying cry to fight the commodification of human attention, with the tools we need to reclaim our humanity, by a group of writers, artists, and activists in the vanguard of the movement.

The Friends of Attention is a collective of activists, artists, and thinkers. Three editors and long-standing “Friends” helped Attensity! take shape: D. Graham Burnett is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of history of science at Princeton University. Alyssa Loh, a filmmaker, co-directed the short film “Twelve Theses on Attention.” Peter Schmidt is the Program Director of the Strother School of Radical Attention.

 

 

A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement
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“A stirring battle cry on behalf of our shared humanity against the forces that seek to diminish and degrade it. Downright invigorating. Just what the moment calls for.”—Chris Hayes, author of The Sirens’ Call

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