On attention

• An AP feature on the growing attention activism movement — from Brooklyn living rooms to a neo-Gothic cathedral in the Netherlands — with Burnett on the rebellion against “human fracking” and what comes next (2026).
• A wide-ranging Expresso (Lisbon) feature on the attention economy and the movement to reclaim it, with Burnett on the “bio-hack at global scale” and the emergence of a new politics of attention (2026).
• A La Repubblica (Rome) cover story on the Strother School as a model of resistance to Big Tech’s exploitation of human attention, with Burnett on the denialism industry (2026).
• A searching Respekt (Prague) interview with Burnett on the history of attention commodification, the paradox of revolution inside the attention economy, and why we are all becoming homo attentus (2026).
• Burnett discusses human fracking, the colonization of human attention, and why Spain may be better positioned than the US or UK to fight back, in El Confidencial (Madrid) (2026).
• Megan Nolan visits Burnett at home and attends a Strother School lab in Brooklyn for a richly reported Observer feature (2026)
• The Paris Review excerpts Attensity! on the Henry James passage at the literary heart of the attention liberation movement (2026).
• Burnett, Loh, and Schmidt make the case for Attensity! as our era’s Silent Spring in a Washington Post profile (2026).
• A wide-ranging Die Zeit (Hamburg) feature on the attention crisis — from air-traffic controllers to ad-tech — with Burnett and the Strother School as the final stop (2025).
• Burnett discusses human fracking, the attention liberation movement, and the case for collective action with LearningWell Radio  (2025).
• Burnett talks about the “need for sanctuary” with Nick Dirks, on the Shaping Science podcast of the New York Academy of Sciences (2025).
• Click for excerpts from Korean press coverage of Burnett’s keynote at the 47th Global Privacy Assembly in Seoul (2025).
• For back to school in 2025, Burnett was a guest on the New York Times HARD FORK podcast — talking about AI, attention, education, and the fate of literacy.
• Burnett interviewed after his Presidential Lecture at Iona College on “Exploring Attention” (2025).
• Burnett helped launch Ben Moe’s new podcast, “The Endangered Mind,” with a session entitled “How Technology is Hacking Your Brain” (2025)
• The New York Times declared “A Turning Point in the War for Attention” #1 in its “12 Predictions for Life in 2025”, linking to the Strother School of Radical Attention‘s workshops.
• A Marist College interview with Burnett asks, “Are We Losing Focus?” (2024).
• Burnett is featured in “Aufstand der Aufmerksamen” — “Uprising of the Attentive” — in Neue Zürcher Zeitung (2024)
• A new profile of Burnett and the Strother School of Radical Attention in the Dutch daily newspaper Der Volkskrant (Dutch, English, 2024.)
• Burnett discussing “distraction” and “Attention Activism” on BBC 4 (a podcast, 2024).
• An interview with Burnett on “Attention Activism,” with Radio New Zealand (2024).
• A profile of the Strother School of Radical Attention, talking with Burnett and others.
• A profile in the New Yorker on the work Burnett (and others) have been doing around human attention.
• “Your Mind Is Being Fracked” — Burnett talks about “Attention Activism” with Ezra Klein, on the New York Times podcast.
• Burnett discusses attention activism on The Crux of the Story with Gary Sheffer and Mike Fernandez — a podcast.
• Burnett discusses HUMAN FRACKING with David Sirota, host of The Lever (2023) — a podcast.
• An interview on the attention economy and contemporary artistic practice, published by the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki (2023).
• Burnett and Stevie Knauss talk about the “Twelve Theses on Attention” for the Glasgow International in 2021 (a podcast).
• Burnett and several collaborators discuss the “Attention Economy” and the COVID-19 Pandemic (ran on the LARB site in 2020)
• Burnett and Sal Randolph discuss attention and art, and describe the work of the ESTAR(SER) collective (a podcast produced by the Glasgow International in 2021).

On Art and History

• Burnett in conversation with Peter N. Miller on the memory, maps, meteorology, and the metaphysical undercurrents of historicism (2025).
• A conversation (with David Kishik) on philosophy, fiction, history, and ecstasy. from Lapham’s Quarterly; a “Roundtable” (2023).
• A conversation on In Search of the Third Bird with Jon Catlin, in the online blog of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
• An interview on the experimental historiography of In Search of the Third Bird, a Humanities Council book announcement (Princeton, 2022).

On the order of nature

• Interview between D. Graham Burnett and Sina Najafi.
  Published in Cabinet magazine Issue 28, winter 2007/2008.

On mastering the universe

• Interview between D. Graham Burnett and Jonathan D Solomon.
  Published in Models, 306090 Books Volume 11, September 2007.

Other conversations and Press

• A Teen Vogue feature on college students and the reading crisis, with Jeff Dolven speaking about the Strother School (2024).
• A story about Burnett’s “Historical Consciousness” class at Princeton (2023).
• Transcript of a Q & A on Critical Machines in Beirut.
  Published in Artmargins issue 5:3, October 2016.
• Interview conducted at Princeton University, Spring of 2009.
• Interview (Portuguese, English) published in Temporalidades,
  the Brazilian journal of history, Winter 2014.