How to do nothing: resisting the attention economy

<b>A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention&#8212;and our personal information&#8212;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</b><br>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. <br>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&#8212;and overdrawn&#8212;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. <br>Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we...