Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Odell also raises the concern that we are losing our ability to refuse and its consequences. In her first book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, multi-disciplinary artist and writer Jenny Odell argues that taking control of our attention from the capitalist. Quotes by Jenny Odell () 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.

Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Refusal continues the story started in Chapter 2 and looks at how people might refuse to participate in the ‘attention economy’. Her first book, 'How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,' challenged a social media-obsessed culture to refocus and pay attention to life around us, including the natural world. and 10mins.?2019 Jenny Odell (P)2019 HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books. Odell looks at the communes of the 1960s and why they happened and how they failed. Here, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity and techno-determinism, and to become more meaningfully connected in the process.RUNNING TIME ? 8hrs. This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we?ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as? doing nothing.

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