When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24 7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as… doing nothing. This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world. You can read this before How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy written by Jenny Odell which was published in. It is furthermore the cult of individuality and personal branding that grow out of such platforms and affect the way we think about our offline selves and the places where we actually live.Brief Summary of Book: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
But the villain here is not necessarily the Internet, or even the idea of social media it is the invasive logic of commercial social media and its financial incentive to keep us in a profitable state of anxiety, envy, and distraction. I am concerned about the effects of current social media on expression-including the right not to express oneself-and its deliberately addictive features. Rather, I am opposed to the way that corporate platforms buy and sell our attention, as well as to designs and uses of technology that enshrine a narrow definition of productivity and ignore the local, the carnal, and the poetic. After all, there are forms of technology-from tools that let us observe the natural world to decentralized, noncommercial social networks-that might situate us more fully in the present.
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