In How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell makes a deeply compelling case for ignoring all of the impulses toward productivity and perfection that have come to imbue our lives, leisure, and otherwise. That means doing, well, nothing—at least nothing that is conceived of as value-making under capitalism. Odell describes the deep pleasures of learning the names of the flora and fauna in her local park. Learning their names means being able to actually notice them—see them, and spend time recognizing them, simply because they occupy the same space as us. They matter, and
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