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A Manifesto for Opting Out of an Internet-Dominated World
Odell's first book, "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy," echoes the approach she took with her bureau, creating a collage (or maybe it's a compost heap) of ideas about ...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Turn on, tune in, and drop out. Odell has us consider the work of maintenance, disrupting the attention economy and escaping its pervasive framework. To listen, reflect, heal, and repair ourselves. Stupidity is never blind or mute. Maybe holster that hot take, touch grass, and do the work of doing nothing.
Book Review: How to Do Nothing
And the goal in How to Do Nothing is not to be more productive after some period of break. It's to make a shift simply because we will be better for it, and because there is more to life than the next distraction. Summer Moore Batte, '99, is the editor of Stanfordmag.org. She plans to do nothing just as soon as she can fit it in.
Review of Jenny Odell's "How to Do Nothing"
The title of Odell's book is, as she notes, not entirely accurate; it's not a primer on inactivity, as absurdly apropos as that might be for the present moment. How to Do Nothing 's true subject is the subtitle: Resisting the Attention Economy. The book is about how to defy the machinations of powerful digital platforms that seek to ...
Jenny Odell's Anti-Capitalist Argument for Doing Nothing
Jenny Odell's new book "How to Do Nothing" is an anti-capitalist manifesto for collectively shifting our attention to create a better world. If you're reading this sentence, I've got your ...
Book Review: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by
Naturally, in reading a book about How to Do Nothing, it seemed necessary for me to not read it simply for the pleasure of reading it, but to commit to a book review. I raced through the book when I had time, between hosting my parents over the holidays, reading two books for two separate book clubs and meeting the responsibilities of my day ...
How to do nothing: the new guide to refocusing on the real world
Ellie Shechet. I n How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, the artist, writer and Stanford professor Jenny Odell questions "what we currently perceive as productive". She wants to ...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based artist, writer, and educator. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney's, and Sierra Magazine. Her visual work has been exhibited internationally, including as a mural on the side of a Google data center in rural Oklahoma.
Book Review: How to do Nothing: Resisting the attention economy
When I saw the title of the book How to do Nothing: Resisting the attention economy, I had mixed feelings. On the one hand I felt a sense of joy and freedom at the thought of living a life where one does little and is unencumbered by responsibilities. We live in such a congested, fast-paced and distracted world that the thought of doing nothing ...
BOOK REVIEW: 'How to do Nothing' by Jenny Odell
Melville House, $25.99, 256 pages. In "How To Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy," Jenny Odell, an Oakland-based multi-disciplinary artist and writer, asks us to look at how we are ...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Paperback)
It's a book I already know I'll be returning to and referencing for a long time."—Ingrid Burrington, author of Networks of New York "In How to do Nothing Jenny Odell breaks through the invisible yoke that binds 21st century first-worlders to our app-driven devices. With a thoughtful look at the attention economy, Odell's book is a self ...
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The shallowness, repetitiveness, and meandering of the book force you to do nothing. What is it not is a way to be inspired or learn practical tips on how to do nothing. So why did I give it 3 stars? Well, if this is art, then I give it 5. If this is meant to be a serious book, I give it 1. I don't know, unless/until the author tells me more ...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Description. In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell ...
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About How to Do Nothing ** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging ...
How to Do Nothing
—Jennifer Szalai, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "The path to freedom lies within the covers of this book."—Lauren Goode, WIRED ... "Jenny Odell's brilliant How to Do Nothing is the book we all need to read now. With wonderful precision, passion, and artfulness, Odell finds the language to meet this cultural moment. ...
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Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year. In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny ...
How to Do Nothing
Book Details. Jenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford and has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump, Facebook, the Internet Archive, and the San Francisco Planning Department. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, The Believer, The Paris Review, and ...
Why We Never Have Enough Time
Illustration by Daniel Liévano. The intruder entered not through the door but through the window. Silently, it began making a home in the cool damp of Jenny Odell's kitchen, in a pig-shaped ...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
--Jennifer Szalai, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "The path to freedom lies within the covers of this book."--Lauren Goode, WIRED "How to Do Nothing mimics the experience of walking with a perceptive and sensitive friend, the kind of person who makes you feel, in your bones, that it's a miraculous gift to be alive."--Katie Bloom, THE SEATTLE TIMES
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Do Nothing is an excellent, well-researched interrogation on our culture's obsession with overwork and efficiency, and the ways it stifles creativity and actual productivity and leads to a lower quality of life. Headlee gives a great historical foundation and context for how American culture came to be so obsessed work and busyness.
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How to Do Nothing mimics the experience of walking with a perceptive and sensitive friend, the kind of person who makes you feel, in your bones, that it's a miraculous gift to be alive."-- "Seattle Times" "An eloquent argument against the cult of efficiency, and I felt both consoled and invigorated by it."-- "New York Times Book Review"
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy is a provocative and inspiring book that challenges the relentless demands of digital capitalism and offers a radical alternative for reclaiming our time, attention, and agency. Drawing on art, philosophy, ecology, and personal stories, the author invites us to explore new ways of being and belonging in the world.
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Odell's first book, "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy," echoes the approach she took with her bureau, creating a collage (or maybe it's a compost heap) of ideas about ...
Turn on, tune in, and drop out. Odell has us consider the work of maintenance, disrupting the attention economy and escaping its pervasive framework. To listen, reflect, heal, and repair ourselves. Stupidity is never blind or mute. Maybe holster that hot take, touch grass, and do the work of doing nothing.
And the goal in How to Do Nothing is not to be more productive after some period of break. It's to make a shift simply because we will be better for it, and because there is more to life than the next distraction. Summer Moore Batte, '99, is the editor of Stanfordmag.org. She plans to do nothing just as soon as she can fit it in.
The title of Odell's book is, as she notes, not entirely accurate; it's not a primer on inactivity, as absurdly apropos as that might be for the present moment. How to Do Nothing 's true subject is the subtitle: Resisting the Attention Economy. The book is about how to defy the machinations of powerful digital platforms that seek to ...
Jenny Odell's new book "How to Do Nothing" is an anti-capitalist manifesto for collectively shifting our attention to create a better world. If you're reading this sentence, I've got your ...
Naturally, in reading a book about How to Do Nothing, it seemed necessary for me to not read it simply for the pleasure of reading it, but to commit to a book review. I raced through the book when I had time, between hosting my parents over the holidays, reading two books for two separate book clubs and meeting the responsibilities of my day ...
Ellie Shechet. I n How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, the artist, writer and Stanford professor Jenny Odell questions "what we currently perceive as productive". She wants to ...
Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based artist, writer, and educator. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney's, and Sierra Magazine. Her visual work has been exhibited internationally, including as a mural on the side of a Google data center in rural Oklahoma.
When I saw the title of the book How to do Nothing: Resisting the attention economy, I had mixed feelings. On the one hand I felt a sense of joy and freedom at the thought of living a life where one does little and is unencumbered by responsibilities. We live in such a congested, fast-paced and distracted world that the thought of doing nothing ...
Melville House, $25.99, 256 pages. In "How To Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy," Jenny Odell, an Oakland-based multi-disciplinary artist and writer, asks us to look at how we are ...
It's a book I already know I'll be returning to and referencing for a long time."—Ingrid Burrington, author of Networks of New York "In How to do Nothing Jenny Odell breaks through the invisible yoke that binds 21st century first-worlders to our app-driven devices. With a thoughtful look at the attention economy, Odell's book is a self ...
The shallowness, repetitiveness, and meandering of the book force you to do nothing. What is it not is a way to be inspired or learn practical tips on how to do nothing. So why did I give it 3 stars? Well, if this is art, then I give it 5. If this is meant to be a serious book, I give it 1. I don't know, unless/until the author tells me more ...
Description. In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell ...
About How to Do Nothing ** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging ...
—Jennifer Szalai, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "The path to freedom lies within the covers of this book."—Lauren Goode, WIRED ... "Jenny Odell's brilliant How to Do Nothing is the book we all need to read now. With wonderful precision, passion, and artfulness, Odell finds the language to meet this cultural moment. ...
Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year. In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny ...
Book Details. Jenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford and has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump, Facebook, the Internet Archive, and the San Francisco Planning Department. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, The Believer, The Paris Review, and ...
Illustration by Daniel Liévano. The intruder entered not through the door but through the window. Silently, it began making a home in the cool damp of Jenny Odell's kitchen, in a pig-shaped ...
--Jennifer Szalai, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "The path to freedom lies within the covers of this book."--Lauren Goode, WIRED "How to Do Nothing mimics the experience of walking with a perceptive and sensitive friend, the kind of person who makes you feel, in your bones, that it's a miraculous gift to be alive."--Katie Bloom, THE SEATTLE TIMES
Do Nothing is an excellent, well-researched interrogation on our culture's obsession with overwork and efficiency, and the ways it stifles creativity and actual productivity and leads to a lower quality of life. Headlee gives a great historical foundation and context for how American culture came to be so obsessed work and busyness.
Based on the sci-fi book series Remembrance of Earth's Past, the Netflix series 3 Body Problem imagines Earth's first extensive contact with extraterrestrial intelligent life.
Becky Lynch talks life in a WWE family, why 'it's more fun to be the bad guy'. Colleen Hoover and Stephen King have sold millions of books, but neither has ever used one of their tomes as a weapon ...
Former President Donald Trump will soon be at the helm of a publicly traded company that will trade under the ticker "DJT," after his initials, and boast a potential valuation of more than $5 ...
How to Do Nothing mimics the experience of walking with a perceptive and sensitive friend, the kind of person who makes you feel, in your bones, that it's a miraculous gift to be alive."-- "Seattle Times" "An eloquent argument against the cult of efficiency, and I felt both consoled and invigorated by it."-- "New York Times Book Review"
Mar 26, 2024, 03:14 PM EDT. Donald Trump is preying — er, praying — his followers will pick up a bible he's hawking. On Tuesday, the former president posted a video on his Truth Social platform that was basically a three-minute commercial for the God Bless The USA Bible. For those not in the know, the GBTUB is a version of the holy book ...
Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review's regular multiple-choice quiz about literature that has gone on to find new life in the form of movies, television shows, theatrical productions ...
Aliens attack science in '3 Body Problem,' a new adaptation of a Chinese sci-fi novel. The new Netflix series brings to life a sprawling, successful Chinese novel outlining a new kind of alien ...
Kit is a frank, trustworthy narrator, with a powerful voice. She is a careful observer, learning to navigate both the truths and the lies she is told, and developing a perceptive wisdom. This is ...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy is a provocative and inspiring book that challenges the relentless demands of digital capitalism and offers a radical alternative for reclaiming our time, attention, and agency. Drawing on art, philosophy, ecology, and personal stories, the author invites us to explore new ways of being and belonging in the world.