{"title": "ATTENTION AND DEMOCRACY [ONLINE] (3/3)", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T20:45:00-05:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/democracy"], "description": "An online seminar, the third of three sessions, examining how the fracturing and monetizing of collective attention—called \"human fracking\"—threatens democratic politics. It is offered by the Strother School of Radical Attention and led by Mihir Kshirsagar, director of Princeton's technology policy clinic and former lead trial counsel for the New York Attorney General. Drawing on thinkers such as John Dewey, Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, and Danielle Allen, the course asks what forms of attention make healthy politics possible and how everyday people can join the effort to repair democratic institutions. It meets virtually over Zoom.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/attention-and-democracy-online-33-67160/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/attention-and-democracy-online-13-5a44y-97elp", "image": "https://noky.io/images/378ec5f5b18321f2817d1a0aa61411468b87748c98f15168bcc833bf3697fbff-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T20:45:00-05:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "ATTENTION AND DEMOCRACY [ONLINE] (1/3)", "start": "2026-10-20T19:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-03T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["society/democracy"], "description": "\"ATTENTION AND DEMOCRACY [ONLINE] (1/3)\" is the first session of a virtual seminar course on Zoom held on Tuesday evenings from October 20 to November 3. It is led by Mihir Kshirsagar, Princeton technology policy clinic director and former lead trial counsel for the New York Attorney General, and run by the Strother School of Radical Attention at 55 Washington Street in New York City. The course considers the direct relationship between Attention Activism and democracy, drawing on the work of John Dewey, Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, Danielle Allen, and others. It asks what forms of attention make healthy politics possible, what role Attention Activism plays in the effort to salvage democracy, and how everyday people can join the effort, arguing that human fracking—the fracturing and monetizing of collective attention—threatens democratic politics and that repairing our capacity for collective attention is needed to rebuild political institutions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/attention-and-democracy-online-13-71850/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/378ec5f5b18321f2817d1a0aa61411468b87748c98f15168bcc833bf3697fbff-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ATTENTION ACTIVISM 101 [ONLINE] (Session 2/3)", "start": "2026-11-02T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T14:45:00-05:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/economics"], "description": "ATTENTION ACTIVISM 101 [ONLINE] (Session 2/3) is an online course session held on Zoom. It is offered by the Strother School of Radical Attention. The course surveys the intellectual and practical foundations of the attention activism movement, the movement that has emerged to fight back against the monetization of human attention by concentrated technical and financial power. It draws on texts by Anna Tsing, Natasha Dow Schull, Shoshanna Zuboff, Tim Wu, and Jonathan Crary, among others, asking what the extractive incursions of the Attention Economy mean for shared life in the twenty-first century and how activists are resisting them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/attention-activism-101-online-session-23-67159/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/attention-activism-101-feb1-m3a4g-p8h6x-ad2jm-5brmd-j3ned-zklx9-6dbk5-kbmr5-wxm2f-n4654-tynjh-y998h-xg3t3", "image": "https://noky.io/images/16aa983b3bbbf503a3277b89cf8718e31db4991bdbdeb254468c9362832bcbe7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "ATTENTION ACTIVISM 101 [ONLINE] (Session 3/3)", "start": "2026-11-09T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T14:45:00-05:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["society/activism"], "description": "ATTENTION ACTIVISM 101 [ONLINE] (Session 3/3) is the final session of an online course surveying the intellectual and practical foundations of the attention activism movement. It is offered by the Strother School of Radical Attention. The course examines how technical and financial power has monetized human attention over the last twenty years, drawing on texts by Anna Tsing, Natasha Dow Schull, Shoshanna Zuboff, Tim Wu, and Jonathan Crary. It asks what the extractive incursions of the Attention Economy mean for shared life in the twenty-first century and how activist communities are resisting them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/attention-activism-101-online-session-33-67162/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/attention-activism-101-feb1-m3a4g-p8h6x-ad2jm-5brmd-j3ned-zklx9-6dbk5-kbmr5-wxm2f-n4654-tynjh-y998h-xg3t3-yl6y9", "image": "https://noky.io/images/16aa983b3bbbf503a3277b89cf8718e31db4991bdbdeb254468c9362832bcbe7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "WRITING RADICAL ATTENTION [ONLINE] (2/3)", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:45:00-05:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/creative-writing", "wellness"], "description": "WRITING RADICAL ATTENTION [ONLINE] (2/3) is a virtual seminar on writing as a practice of attention and a form of resistance to human fracking, combining reading, writing, and workshop sessions. It is led by Len Nalencz, writer and associate professor of English at the University of Mount Saint Vincent, and is part of a course running Wednesdays on Zoom from the Strother School of Radical Attention. Through readings by Raymond Queneau, Rachel Hadas, Italo Calvino, and others, participants experiment with different modes of writing and the special forms of attention these make possible, testing the idea that writing's future rests in its function as a technology of attention. Everyone—writers, teachers of writing, aspiring writers—is welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/writing-radical-attention-online-23-67163/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/writing-radical-attention-online-13-p5mcp", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b0ea04da305e06a918485db5f930f914bd47f2aba462c22570dae698c4fa8473-2000.webp"}, {"title": "WRITING RADICAL ATTENTION [ONLINE] (1/3)", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T20:45:00-05:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/creative-writing"], "description": "An online writing seminar held over three Wednesday sessions, exploring writing as a practice of attention and a form of resistance to so-called human fracking. 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Writers, teachers of writing, and aspiring writers are all welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/writing-radical-attention-online-13-67161/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/writing-radical-attention-online-13", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b0ea04da305e06a918485db5f930f914bd47f2aba462c22570dae698c4fa8473-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Attention Lab: MASKS", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["wellness"], "description": "Attention Lab: MASKS is a collective, participatory workshop in the powers of human attention. It is hosted by the Strother School of Radical Attention, whose labs use group practices and guided discussions to explore what attention is, what it can do, and why it is worth protecting. This session plays with masks as metaphor and with forms of attention that unmask, asking what we see when we think we cannot be seen. It runs for two and a half hours at the school's Brooklyn location.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/attention-lab-masks-56201/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/qcb3mu5ko3isx942aptog4aaools7p-3sp2n-p933l-ntxyy-7hxa2-jzadw-g7ma2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3fee65f782304a8cd7cbb553baebae6a8fa31b9f8f2b2d69f113c1ae48cfa76a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Attention Lab: GHOSTS", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["society"], "description": "Attention Lab: GHOSTS is a workshop at the Strother School of Radical Attention. Attention Lab workshops are collective participatory experiments in the powers of human attention. 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It is led by feminist writer, researcher, and organizer Zafi Tate. The course closely attends to domestic labor, drawing on the 1970s International Wages for Housework movement, thinkers on the politics of care such as M.E. O'Brien and Mai'a Williams, artists Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Mona Hatoum, and the contemplative work of Thich Nhat Hanh. Through discussion, attention practices, collaborative writing, and experimental performance art, participants examine housework in their own lives and what rigorous attention might alchemize it into.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/housework-as-world-building-13-56198/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/housework-as-world-building", "image": "https://noky.io/images/56cfdc08324f6ffaa9a6acbc1ffc77badf54b9ebc575bab3780d2441fc6e4412-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Dance of an Open Mind: Toni Morrison's Radical Attentions with Prof. Namwali Serpell", "start": "2026-10-30T18:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T20:30:00-04:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "An evening of close reading and discussion centered on an essay by Toni Morrison, whose work is presented as a case study in the powers of human attention. It is led by Prof. Namwali Serpell, a novelist, critic, and scholar of English at Harvard and author of On Morrison (Hogarth 2026). The reading is followed by a Q&A with Prof. Serpell on Morrison's work as a whole.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-dance-of-an-open-mind-toni-morrisons-radical-attentions-56195/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/oz11mwd5n4b625emz819ikgci2pxw4", "image": "https://noky.io/images/06787a63d87cc5f575ea7c32e38201594d293d3a7def5dee1e3589c3500d05d9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "AI & India: Navigating the AI Revolution", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/asiastore", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai", "society"], "description": "A panel discussion titled \"AI & India: Navigating the AI Revolution\" at Asia Society's New York venue on Park Avenue at 725. It is presented by Asia Society in association with Pratham USA. The panel brings together perspectives from technology, academia, and education to explore how India can use AI to expand opportunity while managing risks to workers, inequality, privacy, and democratic institutions. Panelists include Ranjit Bawa of Deloitte, Vasant Dhar of NYU, Ranjit Tinaikar of Praxent.ai and Ness Digital, and Bala Venkatachalam of Pratham, moderated by CNBC correspondent Seema Mody.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/ai-india-navigating-the-ai-revolution-51121/", "official_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/ai-india-navigating-ai-revolution", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e8db90d8a483e4369e107ad657673a71484a2f715c31447902775076aa65657-600.webp"}]}