How to Do Nothing

Resisting the Attention Economy

di Jenny Odell

256, pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 28 Dicembre 2019 da Melville House Publishing.

ISBN:: 978-1-61219-750-0

(4 recensioni)

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 read 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 …

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.

9 edizioni

laundry0099@bookwyrm.social ha recensito How to Do Nothing di Jenny Odell

Review of 'How to Do Nothing' on 'Storygraph'

3 stelle

Imagine Braiding Sweetgrass was written by an annoying Californian yuppie and that’s this book. I’m glad I read it. It has a lot of good ideas and it challenged me to think about how social media and my internet use affect my life, which is what made me pick up the book in the first place.

However, it would have been a lot more effective if she had trimmed a few hundred pages of fat and just gotten to the point. Overall, though, still a good read.

Gustave Blåbær ha recensito How to Do Nothing di Jenny Odell

Meeeh.

Nessuna valutazione

It was OK. I have sympathy for the author and trust in their genuine and informed interest on the topic. I got lost and bored when too many art references were added. It often felt like polluting a bit the matter with quirky and irrelevant art parallels talking about pieces that are very niche aka that no one knows about, so hard to relate to. I wish the book was shorter and more straight to the point.

Cian ha recensito How to Do Nothing di Jenny Odell

Escape the Rat Race

4 stelle

A fun and rambling defense of doing nothing, and resisting our modern productivity culture. And unlike so many condemnations of our modern world, and all the problems within it, this book is calming. It may not give you the answers, but you may find you emerge from it with a better understanding of how to just 'be'.

Mojmír Majer

Valuta

25 Febbraio 2024

Argomenti

Information technology
Attention
Work
Art and society
Technology, social aspects