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How to quit Facebook without quitting Facebook
doing nothing as an act of political resistance to the attention economy,
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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
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“I didn’t want to reject the digital world entirely; I just wanted to stop being consumed by it.”