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Jenny Odell: Resisting the Attention Economy

Can we reclaim our attention from a world preoccupied by our data productivity? Jenny Odell's book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, argues that reconnecting with our body and physical environment may be our most important form…

Jenny Odell

Jenny Odell is the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. She is also an interdisciplinary artist and has been in residence at the San Francisco Planning Department,…

Doing Nothing and Saving Time

In the inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, artist and The New York Times–bestselling author Jenny Odell extolled the value of rest as resistance in a culture that always…

Storytelling Gala: Letters to the Future

One of the first questions we ask about any story is ‘What comes next?’ Who better to answer this than a crack team of writers, storytellers, thinkers, jokesmiths and poetic adventurers in a special storytelling gala. Don’t miss Geraldine Brooks,…