In How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenn… - Anne Helen Petersen

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In How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell makes a deeply compelling case for ignoring all of the impulses toward productivity and perfection that have come to imbue our lives, leisure, and otherwise. That means doing, well, nothing — at least nothing that is conceived of as value-making under capitalism.

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