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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Aug 14

WE’RE HIRING!

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

📚 The Dean will oversee SoRA’s academic seminar programming.

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Aug 11

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The Strother School of Radical Attention

Being attentive is — literally — the beginning of peace. The cacophony of power struggles and the clamor of endless action distract many from the responsibility to find, share and protect peace. In th...

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Aug 11

🕊️ 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.

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JUNO! @junotdraws.bsky.social · Jul 14

Hey guys! Really excited to announce that I will be part of n upcoming exhibition happening at the SoRA Sanctuary! You can find more info through @schoolofattention.bsky.social !

A graphic poster promoting the upcoming EYES UP! Poster Art For Attention Activism exhibition at Strother School of Radical Attention. In the center is a light green box with two green (left is warm, right is cool) semi circles with a photographed eye in the middle. The backdrop is blue. In yellow text, the poster states:

EYES UP!
Poster Art for Attention Activism
Opening Reception
at the SoRA Sanctuary Gallery
55 Washington Street, Ste. 736, Brooklyn, NY
07.24 6:30-8:30

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Jul 10

🎧 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...

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Jul 8

New from The Empty Cup: we're collecting meditations on the political valence(s) of slowing down
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Hurry Up and Linger

Weighing the politics of slowness

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 30

New! We're exploring ambient media over at The Empty Cup. Hope you'll join us... schoolofattention.substack.com

Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 28

Will the humanities survive artificial intelligence? SoRA co-founder D. Graham Burnett grapples with teaching and learning in the age of AI in @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?

Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 17

Seats: Limited to 12 (darkroom capacity)

Led by NYC photographer G. Giraldo, whose work explores

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#AnalogPhotography
#MindfulCreativity
#Workshop
#NYCEvents
#Éducation #Filmisnotdead #attentioneconomy #darkroom #criticaltheory

LONG-FORM CAPTURE (4/28 - 5/12)

At its inception, photography was a slow and technical effort. Making an image required attention to physical, chemical, and mechanical processes that unfolded on various timescales. This seminar will...

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 17

🗓 So! Let's get to the details:

Dates: April 28th-May 12, 6:45–9:15 PM ET
Location: SoRA Sanctuary
Investment: Pay what you can ($200 *subsidized*/$250 base /$280 supporter)

Scholarship opportunities & payment plans are also offered. We believe in accessible high-quality education for everyone.

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 17

🔹 Rebel against instant gratification: Discover how time shapes creativity.
🔹 Tangible learning: Build, shoot, and develop your own analog images (!!!)
🔹 Discussions: How does slowing down change what (and why) we capture?

how does this all deeply affect our muddled attention span?

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 17

Over 3 Monday evenings, you’ll experience what it means to make an image slowly - as every shot demands attention, patience, and intention.

Why join?

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 17

📸 Slow Photography Workshop: Relearn How to See (ONLY 3 Mondays, NYC)

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We take thousands of photos—but how many do we truly see?
In this hands-on workshop, we’re stripping photography back to its roots: pinhole cameras, paper negatives, and chemical processing.

LONG-FORM CAPTURE (4/28 - 5/12)

At its inception, photography was a slow and technical effort. Making an image required attention to physical, chemical, and mechanical processes that unfolded on various timescales. This seminar will...

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 14

drawing attention to the connection between personal interspecies bonds and larger symbolic, cosmological systems….

Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 14

As horses and humans grow together, horses also become a measure of time and mark the milestone events of a person’s life. While the mutual human-horse bond was shared by the community overall, tattoos mark skin, or the very “interface” between individual bodies and the world,

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 14

horse riding was seen as an apprenticeship in learning the language of horses, and experienced horses continue to be seen in Eurasian equestrianism as “schoolmasters” that bring their individualized techniques to train riders.

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 14

the vulnerable ritual of receiving the tattoo, new attitudes and beliefs that it imbues on the individual, and its intentional preservation long after other body parts have disintegrated. In “Inked: Human-Horse Apprenticeship, Tattoos, and Time in the Pazyryk World,”Gala Argent emphasizes that

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 14

This may be surprising considering that they almost never revealed skin in public. As something literally carved into the skin, these elaborate designs suggest the relationships that can be created through embodied attention even when they are not intended to be appreciated in public:

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 14

A tribe that inhabited the Altai Mountains of Siberia, the Pazyryks maintained a lifelong bond to horses that was crucial to their nomadic lifestyle and trading — so much that horses are found on tattooed mummies dated to the Iron Age (6th to 3rd centuries BC).

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 14

🐎 VoA 007 👁️‍🗨️

Pazyryk Horse Tattoos

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

#attentionspan #horsetattoos #altaimountains #attentionactivism

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 3

Like the phrase “SILENCE=DEATH,” the symbol is also at once specific and universal, originating from the pink triangle gay prisoners in Nazi camps were forced to wear and later reappropriated by gay activists in the 1970s.

#pridenyc #posterdesign #attentionspan #artessay

Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 3

Through a collaborative process lasting nine months, the artists came to the consensus that an abstract symbol would be more inclusive than the depiction of specific places and figures.

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 3

The bold, urgent, color contrast between black, white, and dark pink would have jumped out from a sea of wheat-pasted posters in NY. The simplicity and directness of the design is key to its ability to both grab attention from afar and sustain it by drawing viewers closer to read the fine print.

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Strother School of Radical Attention @schoolofattention.bsky.social · Apr 3

While the impact of grassroots initiatives in raising awareness and changing public policy on HIV/AIDS is now widely recognized, posters like this one were crucial in converting attention into action by catalyzing the formation of groups like AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP).

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