How to do nothing: resisting the attention economy

Table of contents
The case for nothing
The impossibility of retreat
Anatomy of a refusal
Exercises in attention
Ecology of strangers
Restoring the grounds for thought
Conclusion : Manifest dismantling.
Chapter 1: The case for nothing
Chapter 2: The impossibility of retreat
Chapter 3: Anatomy of a refusal
Chapter 4: Exercises in attention
Chapter 5: Ecology of strangers
Chapter 6: Restroing the ground for thought.
Restroing the ground for thought
Conclusion : manifest dismantling.

"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, who 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 our role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from a simple anti-technology screed or back-to-nature meditation, How to Do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of the narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent."--Jacket.

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