![]() ![]() ![]() In this conversation, Jenny and I discuss the difference between productivity and creativity, how artists orchestrate attention, the ideologies we use to value our time, what it means to do nothing, restoring context to our lives and words, why “groundedness requires actual ground,” lucid dreaming, the joys of bird watching, my difficulty appreciating conceptual art, her difficulty with meditation, and much more. ![]() And she’s a visual artist who has taught digital and physical design at Stanford since 2013, as well as done residencies at Facebook, San Francisco Recology, and the Internet Archive.Īll of which is to say she’s the perfect person to talk to about creativity and attention in a world designed to flatten both. ![]() Odell is the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. “And yet a certain nervous feeling, of being overstimulated and unable to sustain a train of thought, lingers.” This never-ending pressure is what inspired artist and writer Jenny Odell to pen her first book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Jenny examines how, by paying a new kind of attention - our most precious and overdrawn resource - we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the. Instead of enjoying a few minutes of stillness, we feel constant pressure to do something. “For some, there may be a kind of engineer’s satisfaction in the streamlining and networking of our entire lived experience,” writes Jenny Odell. Being idle in this age of hyper-productivity can sometimes leave us feeling a sense of profound guilt. ![]()
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