To enter the Strother School of Radical Attention, you have to walk through what has come to be known as “influencer alley.” Any time of day or night, dozens of people will be standing along this brick-paved part of Brooklyn, snapping the same Instagram photo with the Manhattan Bridge and East River in the background. There’s nothing wrong with this, but it struck me as a little funny while I headed to a course about unraveling the coercive powers of social media, phones, and digital life.That class, “How to Build…
