D. Graham Burnett

Writer, Teacher & Maker
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Graham Burnett

D. Graham Burnett is a writer, teacher, and maker based in New York City. Born in France, he trained in the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, and currently holds the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and History of Science at Princeton University. He is the author of a number of books on technology, nature, and politics from the seventeenth to the twentieth century; and he recently co-edited Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses (Columbia University Press, 2023) as well as Twelve Theses on Attention (Princeton University Press, 2022), the latter a manifesto of the “Friends of Attention” coalition. Burnett is associated with the speculative collective ESTAR(SER), and was a 2023 visiting artist at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland. 

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Fracking Focus: Human Attention in the Age of Algorithmic Intelligence

D. Graham Burnett

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D. Graham Burnett advocates for "attention activism" to reclaim agency in a world where attention is commodified. Drawing on history, art, and AI, he calls for collective and personal practices that resist exploitation and promote human flourishing.
Activism
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AI
Future & Utopia
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English
re:claim Digital Future
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