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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
- In How to Do Nothing (Jenny Odell) made the case for retreat or refusal as an act of resistance to capitalist productivity and commodified attention. She laid out a plan for “hold[ing] open a contemplative space against the pressures of habit, familiarity, and distraction that constantly threaten to close it.”
from How to Map Nothing by Shannon Mattern
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Jenny Odell. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Melville House. 2019.
from Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles by Beth Pickens
- To receive no one’s attention would be a kind of death. There are, of course, disordered ways of seeking attention, but we need the attention of the other even if only to know who we are. This is why I recently wrote that “the problem of distraction can just as well be framed as a problem of loneliness.” Digital media environments hijack our desire... See more
from The Uncanny Gaze of the Machine by L. M. Sacasas
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"To resist in place is to make oneself into a shape that cannot so easily be appropriated by a capitalist value system."
— Jenny Odell, How To Do NothingKate Smalley added
field guide to doing nothing as an act of political resistance to the attention economy,
from How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
The first half of “doing nothing” is about disengaging from the attention economy; the other half is about reengaging with something else. That “something else” is nothing less than time and space, a possibility only once we meet each other there on the level of attention. Ultimately, against the placelessness of an optimized life spent online, I w
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