How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Audiobook (Free)

A galvanizing critique from the forces vying for our attention-and our personal information-that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the surroundings, and reveals everything we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world.

Nothing is harder to accomplish nowadays than nothing. But in a global where our worth depends upon our 24/7 data productivity . doing nothing could be our most important form of level of resistance. So argues designer and critic Jenny Odell with this about How to Do Nothing: Resisting the interest Economy field information 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 begin paying a new kind of interest, she writes, we are able to undertake bolder types of politics actions, reimagine humankind’s function in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of pleasure and progress.

Far from the easy anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature deep breathing we read frequently, How to carry out There is nothing an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of performance and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and absolutely persuasive, this publication is a four-course meal in age Soylent.