Full name: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Author: Jenny Odell Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Self help, Philosophy, Psychology, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781612197494 1612197493

This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about our selves and our world. 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. Similar books: Congratulations, by the way by George Saunders On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz Hella Nation by Evan Wright Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed by Meghan Daum Rock Breaks Scissors by William Poundstone A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher Make Trouble by John Waters What now? by Ann Patchett I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman Pranklopedia by Julie Winterbottom Very Good Lives by J. K. Rowling Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud by Anne Helen Petersen The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira Glass Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed The Art of Stillness by Pico Iyer The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi