Rewilding Attention as Civic Practice

A small but growing movement — organized around a manifesto and local ‘attention activism’ events — argues that people should resist attention-harvesting apps by adopting public rituals (phone‑locking, collective quiet reading, palm‑gazing) and new norms that treat attention as a shared civic resource. The movement appears in dozens of groups across North America and parts of Europe and is explicitly trying to spread beyond literary critique into everyday practice. — If this framing scales, it could change cultural norms around technology use, influence public‑health messaging, and provide political cover for regulation of attention‑economy business models.