Amelia Cervera 🍉May 15, 2022

"How to Do Nothing", by Jenny Odell.

«I WANT TO be clear that I’m not actually encouraging anyone to stop doing things completely. In fact, I think that “doing nothing”—in the sense of refusing productivity and stopping to listen—entails an active process of listening that seeks out the effects of racial, environmental, and economic injustice and brings about real change.
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Show threadAmelia Cervera 🍉May 15, 2022
I consider “doing nothing” both as a kind of deprogramming device and as sustenance for those feeling too disassembled to act meaningfully. On this level, the practice of doing nothing has several tools to offer us when it comes to resisting the attention economy.
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Show threadmaff1989May 15, 2022

@ameliacervera What if doing something and paying attention rewarded you instead of taking advantage of you, like in the case of Facebook, Twitter, advertising companies, etc?

What if you could capitalize on your attention rather than the inverse of others capitalizing on it?

@MrFrog give 50

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@maff1989 🌸 You have given 50 #XPI to [email protected]
May 15, 2022 at 1:32pmWeb