![]() ![]() ![]() Odell links this to neoliberal capitalism, and the requirement that each of us be a hustling entrepreneur, which, in turn, is a way for capital to shift risk onto labor. * The rise of "productivity" as a measure of the quality of life is incredibly destructive, and it obliterates everything inside and outside of us that make us happy, because sleep and love and laughter and beauty are not "productive." With that in mind, the broad strokes of her book are that: Odell's central thesis is hard to pin down part of her subject-matter here is that really important ideas don't neatly distill down to short, punchy summaries or slogans - instead, they occupy a kind of irreducible, liminal complexity that has to be lived as much as discussed. Artist and writer Jenny Odell ( previously) is justifiably beloved for her pieces and installations that make us consider the economics and meanings of garbage, weird markets, and other 21st century plagues in her first book, How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Odell draws on art criticism, indigenous practices, "Deep Listening," anti-capitalist theory, and psychology to make the case that the internal chaos we feel is no accident: it's the result of someone's business-model, and until we reject "productivity" in favor of contemplation and deliberation, it will only get worse. ![]()
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