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 Soylent.
Jenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford, has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump, Facebook, the Internet Archive, and the San Francisco Planning Department, and has exhibited her art all over the world. She lives in Oakland.
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A remedy to modern anxiety is not cutting off the digital abruptly and obeying the holier-than-thou internet asceticism. It’s about reassessing the value of labour in the capitalism and providing safety net to the inevitable inconsistency in productivity. Our state of being can’t be digitalized - stay present physically and experience life fully.
评分注意力经济不只是手机上瘾,它是资本主义逻辑的另一种体现。抵抗注意力经济,往大里说,其实跟伸张公平正义有关。作者在这本书里引用了很多人,有点大杂烩的感觉。整本书的逻辑不算很清晰,有点想到哪里就写到哪里的感觉(作者在引言里也承认了这一点),不过书里有些地方还是启发到了我。
评分Blinkist扫过。虽说是心灵鸡汤式的老生常谈,因为每个人都是自己的资本家,所以每一分钟都有其经济价值,导致大家模糊了工作和生活的边界陷入了焦虑,无所事事反而变成了奢侈品,这当然是错的。大家还是要留有这样悠闲的时间真正的去生活和观察世界的美好。其中提到了在社交网络之前,人是更为多样化的,在不一样的人面前会讲故事不同的版本,这是很理所当然的。但现在的社交网络之下,人们被迫开始“立人设”,在所有人面前都必须是统一的样子 social media makes us behave like one-dimensional brands. 是个有意思的说法。
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评分读了一半弃了。。。适合随手拿起来读一点,不太适合block一大段时间读,读着读着就不知道在讲啥了。。
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