Strother School of Radical Attention
schoolofattention.bsky.social
Strother School of Radical Attention
@schoolofattention.bsky.social
A radical learning space for resisting the commodification of attention.
Join our courses, discussions, and experiments below.

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WE’RE HIRING!

📡 Our team is accepting applications for the position of ACADEMIC DEAN.

📚 The Dean will oversee SoRA’s academic seminar programming.
August 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🕊️ 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.
August 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🎧 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...
July 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
New! We're exploring ambient media over at The Empty Cup. Hope you'll join us... schoolofattention.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
🐎 VoA 007 👁️‍🗨️

Pazyryk Horse Tattoos

Credit: The State Hermitage Museum, via Archaeology Magazine @state_hermitage_museum @archaeologymagazine

#attentionspan #horsetattoos #altaimountains #attentionactivism
April 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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.
April 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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.
March 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
🔔 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....
March 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
⚡️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...
March 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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.
March 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
JOIN US TONIGHT
Dumbo, Brooklyn ❤️‍🔥🤝

www.schoolofattention.org/programs/att...
February 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
VoA 004 // PART 2
Lee Kun-Yong, Snail’s Gallop, 1979, first performed at Namgye Gallery, Daejeon, Korea; and the 15th Bienal de São Paulo
February 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
VoA 003 // PART 1
Saburo Murakami, Passage, 1956, performed at the 2nd Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Kaikan hall, Tokyo
February 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
VoA 002 🎥
February 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Visions of Attention Edition 001:

Francis Barraud, His Master’s Voice, 1899
January 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
💚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
January 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM