Jenny Odell Quotes (Author of How to Do Nothing)
Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and care as productive in the same way.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild bemusement like “annoying” or “distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and ke... See more
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
am interested in a disciplined deepening of attention.
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 w
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