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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疫情焦虑期间读再合适不过了 延伸阅读了很多 ultimately it's not about doing nothing but how to do things and what to do
评分作者语:this book is a field guide to doing nothing as a political resistance to the attention economy...solitude, observation, and simple conviviality should be recognized not only as ends in and of themselves, but inalienable rights belonging to anyone lucky enough to be alive.
评分one woman's resistance to the system
评分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.
评分想起了克里希那穆提的"享受无聊"
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