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Sto caricando le informazioni... How to do nothing : resisting the attention economy (edizione 2019)di Jenny Odell
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Here's a loose collection of thoughts I wrote to a friend about this book: I loved it! I could imagine it being really dissatisfying for lots of people -- it's definitely not a how to, there's no real advice in it. It's more meandering and kinda reflecting on how we spend our time and attention. I feel like you [the person] might've put me on to The Shallows by Nicolas Carr a while back, it's entirely *not* like that in approach, but has a few overlapping themes. In the intro, the author writes: > Consider this not a closed transmission of information, but instead an open and extended essay, in the original sense of the word (a journey, an essaying forth). It's less a lecture than an invitation to take a walk. I feel like that's basically right. The path it follows is something like (by chapter): 1. "doing nothing as countercultural practice / anti-cult-of-productivity", focussing your attention deliberately 2. a common approach is to try and exit society completely, but that's not tenable, responsible or satisfying 3. what does protest look like, then? 4. here are times when I've noticed my attention, it's caught me off guard, here's why we shouldn't allow it to be coopted 5. here's how attention interacts with other people, other life forms (picking up the theme of chapter 2 a little) 6. here are the ways in which it is very difficult to make meaningful progress as individuals and a society because of things eroding the ability to spend time exploring the nuance in ideas (picking up on chapters 3 and 5 again) Conclusion: dismantling bad structures as a creative act (both, like, removing a badly-conceived dam to make space for nature again, and badly-conceived social structures to make room for people, and nature again, and people are actually part of nature). So, yeah. It's _not_ focussed. It draws upon research, art, personal experience, it has parts that are beautiful nature writing, what seemed like well-researched history and sociology and storytelling. I found it very enjoyable, and couldn't put it down, but it's not clear what it _is_, so I wouldn't recommend it to _everyone_. But I liked it so much that I bought copies for two friends, because I thought they would be the sort of people who would like it. But I don't think I have any concrete takeaways. Some things I've read recently, which it touches upon / felt like, but isn't quite: - Nature writing, like The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd - The Refusal of Work by David Frayne (though that's way more research-y) - Can't Even, by Anne Helen Petersen (though that's a little more research-y) - It intersects with a lot of Craig Mod's writing (about nature, the connection between nature and people, paying attention to small things) - And maybe rhymes with Ursula LeGuin's essays (No time to Spare other bits and pieces) Odd, and not really a book, but a series of thoughts in no particular order. There were some interesting points, but most of this was rambling and incoherent. Bird watching. Communes. Performance art. Poetry. More bird watching. More art. Long quotes about I don't know. I finished it, but don't really know what it was supposed to be about. I wonder if it's supposed to be an anti-book piece of performance art. I don't recommend the audio book, as the narrator's pattern of speaking made it even more difficult to follow. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention-and our personal information-that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world 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 hear 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Each chapter was loosely based around a concept, but none of the ideas presented really flowed. It felt like a collection of blog posts or articles more than a cohesive book. No clear steps to take on "how to do nothing" ... just stories about WHY you should do nothing.
I wanted to like this more, but it just wasn't for me. ( )