The Empty Cup

Dispatches on the Politics of Attention

By School of Radical Attention

Special Dispatches

Essays and reports of political, philosophical, and artistic queries on attention.

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The Art of the Longplay

Watching people play video games really, really slowly
Jun 20 • School of Radical Attention and Alex Wennerberg

Reading the Void

Machines can read everything. Only we can read nothing.
Jun 6 • School of Radical Attention

Returning to Sacredness in the Age of A.I.

The Pope calls for "faces and voices to speak for people again"
Feb 17 • School of Radical Attention

Australians Want to "Let Them Be Kids"

On the Ground in Sydney at the dawn of the Online Safety Amendment
Feb 4 • School of Radical Attention

Pastures of the Mind

Zen and thinking not-thinking with writer Sal Randolph
Jan 15 • School of Radical Attention and Sal Randolph

What is ATTENSITY? (Pt. 2)

The ecology of our minds and senses
Jan 10 • School of Radical Attention

Cartographies of Consciousness

Mapping relational worlds with creative technologist Queenie Wu
Nov 19, 2025 • School of Radical Attention