Odell sees our attention as the most precious and overdrawn resource we have. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to slowing down. After hearing Cage’s work in person, the artist claims she was a different person. But in a world where our value is determined by our data productivity, doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. In How to Do Nothing, Odell recounts her own enlightening experience of listening to John Cage’s experimental Song Books (1970), which include sounds rarely heard during musical performancesshuffling cards, for example, and a whirring blender. Publisher: Melville House Publishing ISBN: 9781612198552 Number of pages: 256 Weight: 266 g Dimensions: 209 x 140 mm You may also be interested in. Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. In a world where addictive technology is. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent. The ultimate resource for everything relating to How To Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy by Jenny Odell. 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.įar from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Odell sees our attention as the most precious-and overdrawn-resource we have.

So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it).

doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity. Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing.

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