
How to Do Nothing
Resisting the Attention Economy
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Rebecca Gibel
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Jenny Odell
A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance.
So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious - and overdrawn - resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind's role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.
Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we hear so often, How to Do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent.
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But the print copy
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A great guide for how to return to the good life
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Interesting
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Early chapters fascinating
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Can't get past narrators robot voice
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Much needed reminder to log off —
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Is this a joke ? Alexa is the narrator?
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Interesting but sometimes repetitive and grandstanding
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Listen to part of it first
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I was reminded more than once I was Victor Frankl’s classic book about how we can bring meaning to life.
It’s no question that social media has had an impact. It really doesn’t seem to be any clear direction where we’re headed and the book does not provide any real help.
I prefer not to…
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