How to Do Nothing Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Jenny Odell
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
182

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell Book Summary

** A New York Times Bestseller **

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library

"A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review

One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019"
Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year

In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives.
 
Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but 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 book will change how you see your place in our world.

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Book Name How to Do Nothing
Genre Engineering
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 2.48 MB

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Boring. Overindulgent just couldn’t get past 10% of it. Sorry! Wish I could get my money back

A dull and disorienting read. A disconnected compilation of ramblings, Odell’s writing follows no obvious flow. The tone of the book is overwhelmingly academic, it would have fared better as a thesis. A thought-provoking premise poorly executed, the narrative feels dull.

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Summary of How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

The How to Do Nothing book written by Jenny Odell was published on 09 April 2019, Tuesday in the Engineering category. A total of 182 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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