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Podcast: Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode: Peter Schmidt on Attention Activism, Corporate Greed, and Reclaiming Our Humanity in the Digital Age
Description: Peter Schmidt is a member of an activist collection called The Friends of Attention. Together they have published a book called Attensity: A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement, available from Crown.
Schmidt is a writer and organizer originally from Missouri, now living in Brooklyn. He is a writer and the Editor-in-Chief of The Empty Cup, a dispatch on the politics of attention. Currently working on a book-length project about non-institutional communities of study he is a member of the Friends of Attention coalition, and leads workshops, seminars, and study groups at the Strother School of Radical...