How to Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy | Jenny Odell | Talks at Google

Oakland-based artist and writer Jenny Odell discusses her debut 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 environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.

[christianthecopywriter]

Once people put down their judgement for her she is actually very smart, intelligent and correct with her research and observations

[Big_Dai]

"Submitting our leasure for numerical evaluation", that's a pretty good line

[AustenSummers]

Funniest title and channel combo of the year

[james]

She makes some excellent points and her presentation of the issues is really refreshing and natural to hear.

[amseel]

The most human talk I have ever listened!

[renatoatore]

This talk makes me remember about Bartleby and the "I would prefer not to"

[rickyrivera]

Jenny I love it. Thanks for sharing as I has made me reflect on life and it has help.

[joeldwest]

Yes, my X told me plainly that he expected me to work 20hrs a day. I was to be allowed only 4 hours of rest/sleep a day. Because he "could".

[marcusaurielius]

I pressed play on a 54 minute video explain how I shouldn’t. Hexed.

[oliviaallen]

These comments make me realize how few people are capable of nuanced thinking…..

[Extys]

lmao she's giving this talk at GOOGLE

[oxherder]

The utter irony of giving this talk at Google…

[science-guy]

Nothing is impossible
And I can do nothing(should I feel special)

[heryr]

I was going to watch this but decided to just sit on the floor and stare at the wall for 55 minutes

[mikailmaqsood]

@16:41 'what was missing from that surreal and terrifying torrent of infomration and virtuality was any regard, any place for the human animal. Situated as she is in time and a physical environment woth outher human and non human entities ..it requires that groundedess requires actual ground'

[BuickGeek]

And yeah, people should not tie their self worth to likes. People say it's unhealthy

[AnimeshSharma]

Our country has a whole industry on the idea of the appearance of doing nothing since forever... #meditation ;)

[RobRobertRobbie]

Glad I watched this. I think Im less interested in the book

[kiwitrainguy]

This video was 55 minutes long but if she didn't use the word "like" it would only be 45 minutes long.

[haru]

comment to examples till 28:00, a contemporary example can be duran adam from turkey in gezi protests