Sublime

doing nothing as an act of political resistance to the attention economy,

par excellence,

an activist book disguised as a self-help book.

the artist creates a structure—whether

an act of political resistance to the attention economy,

a similar battle playing out for our time, a colonization of the self by capitalist ideas of productivity and efficiency.

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