Sublime

The removal of economic security for working people dissolves those boundaries—eight

When every moment is a moment you could be working, power lunch becomes power lifestyle.

‘Nothing is harder to do than nothing,’ remarks the author and artist Jenny Odell.10 But to get better at it is to begin to regain your autonomy – to stop being motivated by the attempt to evade how reality feels here and now, to calm down, and to make better choices with your brief allotment of life.

I consider “doing nothing” both as a kind of deprogramming device and as sustenance for those feeling too disassembled to act meaningfully.

Diogenes also has much to teach us about how to refuse.

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

The problem is that, according to this plan, more freedom requires ever more (self-)mastery,

But the villain here is not necessarily the Internet, or even the idea of social media; it is the invasive logic of commercial social media and its financial incentive to keep us in a profitable state of anxiety, envy, and distraction. It is furthermore the cult of individuality and personal branding that grow out of such platforms and affect the w

Things look different from up there, which explains why Thoreau’s world, like that of Diogenes and Zhuang Zhou, is full of reversals.