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How to Do Nothing
- Resisting the Attention Economy
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gidel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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 read 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 audiobook is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent.
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- Pooja Pillai
- 08-02-24
Great book, robotic narration
This is a phenomenally interesting book, full of exciting ideas and very thoughtfully put together. By no measure an easy book to read or listen to. Which is why the robotic narration feels like such a let down, because this could have been narrated in a way that makes its ideas much more accessible. That's what it needed. I'd still recommend this book, if the listener can get over the narration.
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- Zara K
- 31-03-20
robotic narration
returned this very quickly. the narrator is a robot! incredibly listener-unfriendly monotone.
not a reflection of the book, which is probably good for all I know.
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- nishant
- 18-01-24
good topic but the reader was very mechanical
could not finish the book as the narration was very mechanical. it's almost listening to a bot.
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