Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance.
So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have...
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance.
So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.
Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent.
作者简介
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Jenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford, has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump, Facebook, the Internet Archive, and the San Francisco Planning Department, and has exhibited her art all over the world. She lives in Oakland.
目录
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Introductions: Surviving Usefulness
Chapter 1: The Case for Nothing
Chapter 2: The Impossibility of Retreat
Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Refusal
Chapter 4: Exercises in Attention
Chapter 5: Ecology of Strangers
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Introductions: Surviving Usefulness
Chapter 1: The Case for Nothing
Chapter 2: The Impossibility of Retreat
Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Refusal
Chapter 4: Exercises in Attention
Chapter 5: Ecology of Strangers
Chapter 6: Restoring the Grounds for Thought
Conclusion: Manifest Dismantling
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
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One could only learn from the model of art as long as art remained the Other--something that differs from life and transcends life, without being assimilated by life. (查看原文)
作者语：this book is a field guide to doing nothing as a political resistance to the attention economy...solitude, observation, and simple conviviality should be recognized not only as ends in and of them...作者语：this book is a field guide to doing nothing as a political resistance to the attention economy...solitude, observation, and simple conviviality should be recognized not only as ends in and of themselves, but inalienable rights belonging to anyone lucky enough to be alive. (展开)
p.xviii These two lessons should give you a sense of where I'm headed in this book. The first half of "doing nothing" is aobut disengaging form the attention economy; the other half is about reengaging with something else. p.7 Deep Listening [is defined as]...
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2 有用 饼 2019-10-29 10:31:37
作者语：this book is a field guide to doing nothing as a political resistance to the attention economy...solitude, observation, and simple conviviality should be recognized not only as ends in and of them... 作者语：this book is a field guide to doing nothing as a political resistance to the attention economy...solitude, observation, and simple conviviality should be recognized not only as ends in and of themselves, but inalienable rights belonging to anyone lucky enough to be alive. (展开)
1 有用 Le Flaneur 2025-03-16 20:01:53 江苏
很多人和书单都推荐了，结果没想到差成这样，全篇都是中产阶级象牙塔学者的碎碎念；“do nothing”这个概念实在太中产、蕴含着太多特权而不自知了，作者在书中嘲笑别人搞那种不准带手机不准上网的“电子排毒”静修营非常中产阶级，但她自己在斯坦福上课时带领学生走出教室到户外去，让别人花几万美元的学费在寸土寸金的硅谷校园里“do nothing”，又何尝不是一种中产特权？要了解attention econ... 很多人和书单都推荐了，结果没想到差成这样，全篇都是中产阶级象牙塔学者的碎碎念；“do nothing”这个概念实在太中产、蕴含着太多特权而不自知了，作者在书中嘲笑别人搞那种不准带手机不准上网的“电子排毒”静修营非常中产阶级，但她自己在斯坦福上课时带领学生走出教室到户外去，让别人花几万美元的学费在寸土寸金的硅谷校园里“do nothing”，又何尝不是一种中产特权？要了解attention economy还不如读“The Sirens' Call” (展开)
0 有用 饱肚师叔 2023-03-09 02:15:00 美国
满书废话
0 有用 龄童 2022-05-17 01:52:09
很好读，这是个过去几年被嚼烂的话题，但是作者的角度仍然是新的，也很喜欢用各种艺术作品举的例子。社交媒体和网络在吞噬我们，这话如今谁都说过了，但是到底是怎么吞噬的，到底可以怎么反抗，还是很少读到这么清晰的作品。
0 有用 Viola 2023-03-15 19:18:24 上海
静下心来，仔细读，觉得还不错。感性型作者，思维也略跳远，但是能get，也有帮助。