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Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
The point of doing nothing, as I define it, isn’t to return to work refreshed and ready to be more productive, but rather to question what we currently perceive as productive.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Burnout is an indicator that something has gone wrong in the way we organize our work. But as a concept it remains lodged in an old paradigm—a work ethic that was already dubious in America’s industrial period, and now, in a period of extreme inequality and increasing precarity across once-stable professions, is even harder to credit.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
The point of doing nothing, as I define it, isn’t to return to work refreshed and ready to be more productive, but rather to question what we currently perceive as productive.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
