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Melville House (April 9, 2019)
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell is It seems like some of the negative reviews have an agenda to push, especially the one that only quotes from the first and last paragraphs of the book. I would guess that person did not even read the book. I enjoyed the thoughts from the author. It made me think of things differently. I appreciated the argument about valuing things that aren’t valued in money or measured in the economy. It argues that we need time to process our thoughts and not just thoughtlessly react to social media posts. It argues we need the ability to direct our conversations differently to different audiences rather than the one size fits all post of Facebook. It argues to get to know your neighborhood and local place. If you are sick of the continued outrage machines we have created in our national discussions, you may wish to read this. It is true the author is viewing life from inside a San Francisco cultural bubble but I still found resonance with main points while living in the Midwest U.S.
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell is Jenny Odell is not simply smart, she is VERY smart. To be THAT smart, you should be an American professor in the field of Arts and Humanities in the year 2019. Professors in these fields have to produce INNOVATIVE SCHOLARSHIP (important words in academia) in the forms of books and articles, even if such innovation often means reinventing the wheel (tenure committees will be happy anyway). The reason for this is quite noble: the "old" wheel was invented by patriarchal oppressors, and oppression must be defeated through leftist college activism. Perhaps it would be fair to presume that Jenny is also oppressed; as we learn from the book, Jenny - a professor at Stanford, - suffers from the awful American reality:"In early 2017, not long after Trump's inauguration [...] I was still reeling from the election and, like many other artists I knew, found it difficult to continue making anything at all."I feel for Jenny, I do. You can hardly find a worse sentence to open a book (the chapter is called "A Case for Nothing," and the entire book is actually JUST THAT - a case for NOTHING, garnished with quotations from almost anything that Jenny has ever read and no original ideas whatsoever). By the way, some of the best artists have created their masterworks IN SPITE OF the political conditions, in which they lived. Shostakovich and Solzhenitzyn lived under Stalin, after all.Now, before we go on, sit in zazen and chant OM. Focus. Breathe. Feel the love...Let's continue with few more words of inspiration from Jenny's chef-d'oeuvre:"Practices of attention and curiosity are inherently open-ended, oriented toward something outside of ourselves. Through attention and curiosity, we can suspend our tendency toward INSTRUMENTAL UNDERSTANDING-seeing things or people one-dimensionally as the product of their functions..."Wow! One cannot just make this up, it is an insight that must come from true wisdom, and from years of scholarly research. I am not quite sure Immanuel Kant, Nietzsche or Jung (or Marx!) would agree with Jenny, but whatever, it matters not! The important thing is to feel good, who cares about philosophical problems related to human consciousness. If you are a MODERN professor, you should not be stuck in all this mud. You must care about the souls of your students, about their feelings and gender expressions; only in such a way you can help them be THEMSELVES! If you read the book, you will be yourself as well! (What else can you be?)Jenny reaches the pinnacle of spiritual depth, masterfully distilled in the glorious cadence at the end of this tenure-worthy publication:"Standing perpendicular to the earth, not pitching forward, not falling back, I asked how I could possibly express my gratitude for the unlikely spectacle of the PELICANS. The answer was nothing. Just watch."Namaste! True inspiration from within. Absolutely life changing, if you are somewhere between middle and high school...No more spoilers. Buy the book, read it and then ask yourself: why college education in the US is so expensive? Why???
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell is Not a self-help guide, but rather a fascinating collection of essays that critique the modern “attention economy,†where our time and attention is deemed useless if not spent in the pursuit of profit and “progress.†Odell deftly weaves historical, literary, and artistic references together (from Diogenes to Herman Melville to Tehching Hsieh) and covers a whole lot of ground in a book that in a lesser author’s hand could seem inconsistent. Instead, it’s like having a meandering conversation with a brilliant friend.If you’re looking for a digital detox guide, go elsewhere (though she does spend time dismantling the very concept). If a capitalist critique (by a woman in academia, no less) gets your knickers in a twist, avoid. If you want some genuine inspiration as to how to exist, resist, and survive in the world as it is today, you won’t be disappointed.
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell is Excellent and thoughtful book, probably the best I’ve read on the topic of the attention economy precisely because Odell resists facile prescriptions and instead critiques the roots of the problems we are currently facing and which social media is exacerbating. In brief, these are alienation from our surroundings, alienation from our selves, and alienation from one another, brought about by capitalism and neoliberalism generally. But in detail she discusses and thinks about much more in these pages, and it stays close to lived experience. As well as demonstrating various ways of resisting without opting out. The fact that all this is lost on Sam the Eagle up there in his supposedly scathing review, I think, is another sign of its quality. Reading this book kept reminding me of no author more than Rebecca Solnit. I read it over a couple days and I’ll be reading it again, I think.