How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

HOW TO DO NOTHING

Resisting the Attention Economy

By Jenny Odell

In 2015, Jenny Odell started an organization she called The Bureau of Suspended Objects. Odell’s first book, “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,” echoes the approach she took with her bureau, creating a collage (or maybe it’s a compost heap) of ideas about detaching from life online, built out of scraps collected from artists, writers, critics and philosophers. Then, summoning the ideas of others, she goes on to construct a complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto.

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