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2025-01-28
How to Do Nothing 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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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.
A remedy to modern anxiety is not cutting off the digital abruptly and obeying the holier-than-thou internet asceticism. It’s about reassessing the value of labour in the capitalism and providing safety net to the inevitable inconsistency in productivity. Our state of being can’t be digitalized - stay present physically and experience life fully.
评分注意力经济不只是手机上瘾,它是资本主义逻辑的另一种体现。抵抗注意力经济,往大里说,其实跟伸张公平正义有关。作者在这本书里引用了很多人,有点大杂烩的感觉。整本书的逻辑不算很清晰,有点想到哪里就写到哪里的感觉(作者在引言里也承认了这一点),不过书里有些地方还是启发到了我。
评分从书皮儿到内容都能看出 这真是一位艺术家写的书啊!天马行空 缺乏逻辑。。。
评分A remedy to modern anxiety is not cutting off the digital abruptly and obeying the holier-than-thou internet asceticism. It’s about reassessing the value of labour in the capitalism and providing safety net to the inevitable inconsistency in productivity. Our state of being can’t be digitalized - stay present physically and experience life fully.
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.
How to Do Nothing 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书