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Attensity! a Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement

Legalisms.ca is, at its heart, a representation of my love for reading. For lawyers, the ability to sit with a complex text is a fundamental professional requirement. However, in modern practice, our attention is being systematically extracted by a 24/7 cycle of notifications, pings, and the pressure for instant AI-generated summaries; a process called "human fracking" (p. 33). We are trading the "deep study" required for high-level strategy for mere information management (p.134-5). While the book Attensity offers a radical manifesto for an "Attention Liberation Movement," today I want to focus on one standout concept: the Reading Sanctuary (p. 155). A Reading Sanctuary is a physical or temporal space intentionally bracketed from the "operational logics" of the digital office (p. 156). It is based on the idea that "study" is a form of attention that cannot be outsourced to a machine because understanding requires a "synchrony...

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