Doing nothing is more than just lazing around. Artist and author Jenny Odell joins us to explain what she means by doing nothing — taking time out of one’s day to engage in an activity without considering whether it’s productive — and why it can be so difficult these days to do it. She’ll also explain how doing nothing can actually be a form of resistance to a world where our value is over determined by our ‘data productivity.’
Guest
Jenny Odell, who teaches at Stanford University, is also a multi-disciplinary artist and writer based in Oakland, California. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, SFMOMA's Open Space, McSweeney's, The Creative Independent, Sierra Magazine, Topic and Real Future.
Resources
- Jenny Odell
- "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy," by Jenny Odell
- Medium: how to do nothing
- A Manifesto for Opting Out of an Internet-Dominated World
- Longreads: Against Hustle: Jenny Odell Is Taking Her Time at the End of the World
- How to Quit Your Phone and Change Your Life By … Doing Nothing
- How to quit Facebook without quitting Facebook
- Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?
- Why the Maker Movement Is Important to America’s Future
- ‘Forest Bathing’ Is Great for Your Health. Here’s How to Do It
- The Guardian: How the news took over reality