How To Do Nothing
Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell . 2019 232pp . 303.4833 ODE . Beaverton Library
- This book is for people who spend way too much time with their smart phones and "social media"
- I don't have a smart phone, and my social media is ascii email. I would rather read physics books.
pix Introduction: Surviving Usefulness
pxi "It is a field guide for doing nothing as an act of political resistance to the attention economy, with all the stubbornness of a Chinese "nail house" blocking a major highway
p003 Chapter 1: The Case for Nothing
p030 Chapter 2: The Impossibility of Retreat
- p060 ... what drives the machine is not the content of information but the rate of engagement. Meanwhile, media companies continue churning out deliberately incendiary takes, and we're so quickly outraged by their headlines that we can't even consider the option of not reading and sharing them.
p063 Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Refusal
p095 Chapter 4: Exercises in Attention
p127 Chapter 5: Ecology of Strangers
p155 Chapter 6: Restoring the Grounds for Thought
p186 Conclusion: Manifest Dismantling