How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Description: 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— ... (more)

Manufacturer: Melville House
Release date: 9 April 2019
ISBN-10 : 1612197493 | ISBN-13: 9781612197494

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