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.
发表于2024-06-28
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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.
任何能让人上瘾的东西都应该被慎重对待。当注意力都可以被资本家用来榨取价值获利也真的是蛮可怕的。书里提到了不为牟而存在公共空间的重要性,让我想起了Eric Klinenberg的palaces for the people。总体来讲书里零散的有很多让我有启发的东西,但是整体结构一般,感觉不用写那么长。
评分作者语: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.
评分还是挺有启发的 但是整体结构比较散 // direct sensuous reality, in all its more-than-human mystery, remains the sole solid touchstone for an experiential world now inundated with electronically generated vistas and engineered pleasure. // 引用别人多过自己的新idea
评分Blinkist扫过。虽说是心灵鸡汤式的老生常谈,因为每个人都是自己的资本家,所以每一分钟都有其经济价值,导致大家模糊了工作和生活的边界陷入了焦虑,无所事事反而变成了奢侈品,这当然是错的。大家还是要留有这样悠闲的时间真正的去生活和观察世界的美好。其中提到了在社交网络之前,人是更为多样化的,在不一样的人面前会讲故事不同的版本,这是很理所当然的。但现在的社交网络之下,人们被迫开始“立人设”,在所有人面前都必须是统一的样子 social media makes us behave like one-dimensional brands. 是个有意思的说法。
评分“我们是一点一滴地体验到注意力经济的,所以我们往往只是温和地说它很恼人或者让我们的注意力涣散。但这是对其本性严重的误读。从短期来说,注意力涣散会让我们做不了自己想做的事情。从长远来看,它们会让我们过不上自己想过的生活,破坏我们的思考和自控能力,让我们难以期望我们想期望的东西。它们对自由、幸福和自我的完整性都有影响。”
How to Do Nothing 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书