![]() ![]() ![]() Which is ironic, given the subject matter. Normally, hanging a narrative on such personal meditations - exploring a forgotten creek, sitting in a park - would leave me a little itchy, but Odell’s highly poetic style kept me paying attention. She elevates the act of disconnecting and idly thinking and creating for the joy of it to heroic, necessary acts. ![]() Odell - an artist and teacher and talented writer - uses a highly personal narrative to explore the insidious influence of social media and the soul-draining culture of productivity and usefulness. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell is a quietly subversive and effective, engaging look at the declining and degrading “habitats for human thought.” Quietly subversive, an engaging look at the declining and degrading “habitats for human thought.” ![]()
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