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. Do Nothing shares a strong message of how to accomplish something greater for Jesus. Jenny Odell, Artist and Author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy One of the most unique experiences of sharing a book with the world is.
Odell sees our attention as the most preciousand overdrawnresource we have. “And yet a certain nervous feeling, of being overstimulated and unable to sustain a train of thought, lingers.” 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. “For some, there may be a kind of engineer’s satisfaction in the streamlining and networking of our entire lived experience,” writes Jenny Odell.
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