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''.pIX Introduction: Surviving Usefulness''  .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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdout_(real_estate)#Nail_house | 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''

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

  • p186Conclusion: Manifest Dismantling

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