Plainpicture/André Schuster
Psychology
Jenny Odell
Melville House
THERE is no shortage of books about digital culture and its deleterious effects. The same goes for publications on healing our addicted and distracted minds or that recommend contemplating nature as a mental salve.
How To Do Nothing is different. Author Jenny Odell calls it “an activist book disguised as a self-help book” and explains why “in an environment completely geared toward capitalist appropriation of even our smallest thoughts… doing nothing is hard”.
The attention economy is well served by technology but isn’t driven by it. As…
