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How to do nothing resisting the attention economy

"When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as . . . doing nothing. Here, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an acti...

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Main Author: Odell, Jenny (Multimedia artist) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2019]
Subjects:
Information technology > Social aspects.
Reflection (Philosophy)
Attention > Philosophy.
Work > Philosophy.
Arts > Philosophy.
Summary: "When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as . . . doing nothing. Here, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity and techno-determinism, and to become more meaningfully connected in the process"--
Physical Description: xxiii, 232 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.
ISBN: 9781612197494
1612197493
Author Notes: Jenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford and has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump, Facebook, the Internet Archive, and the San Francisco Planning Department. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, The Believer, The Paris Review, and McSweeney's , among others. She lives in Oakland.

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