# Graham Burnett

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The Clifftown Podcast Series 3: Episode 5: Southend Zines

Often referred to as 'People's Papers', the fanzine became one of the key features of the punk scene of the 1970s but they have a deep and rich history that reaches further back. I went in search of Southend's own history with fanzines alongside Graham Burnett, one of the foremost historians of the…

You Are Being Robbed of Your Attention with D. Graham Burnett and Peter Schmidt

Would you rather that your attention were a resource freely directed toward your interests, or a measure of how many ads can be propelled into your eyeballs in a single session? Our attention has been commodified, and an entire industry is trying to wring out every possible instance of it. D. Graha…

Episode 21: The Friends of Attention

“The Cold War laboratory research identified something real about humans: that we can focus on a stimulus on a screen. But it is hardly an adequate account of what it is to be a human person,” says D. Graham Burnett in this week’s episode of The World in Time. “For instance, giving your mind and ti…

Graham Burnett and Peter Schmidt on Friends of Attention

Graham Burnett and Peter Schmidt on Friends of Attention You can read about their work here: https://friendsofattention.org/ https://www.schoolofattention.org/

Human Fracking? The Attention Liberation Movement vs. Big Tech

Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Episode Summary Something feels wrong with our attention — and with reality itself. In Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement, editors D. Graham Burnett, Alyssa Loh, and Peter …

Ep. 159 - Reclaiming Attention

Too many of us spend too much time on our phones.  We know by now—through whistleblower reports, congressional hearings, and our daily lived experience—that these devices, neutral in themselves, can and often do cause serious harm.  Can we learn to live without them again? Would we even want to? …

45: Nicholas Thompson - A Life of Long Form

Nicholas Thompson (Website, X, LinkedIn, Wikipedia) is the CEO of The Atlantic, an elite distance runner, and the author of The Running Ground—a memoir about his father, his life, and the sport of running. Full transcript and all links at dialectic.fm/nick-thompson. Nick has led The Atlantic to t…

Rewilding Attention with D. Graham Burnett

We all know our attention is being competed for — but historian of science D. Graham Burnett calls it something more alarming: a "civilizational biohack." In this episode, we talk with Burnett, a Princeton historian of science and co-founder of "The Friends of Attention," about the movement to libe…