![]() ![]() “I thought it was super-amazing, kind of utopian, and now I’m having this reckoning with what that actually means.” “I’m a kid who grew up in the Bay Area, and grew up with the internet, and it was super-exhilarating and obviously influenced my work,” she says. She teaches at Stanford and has done artist residencies at both Facebook and the San Francisco dump. And if you follow Odell on Twitter ( you’ll bless your feed with rare birds, strange plants, local wildlife and oak trees.įor a book about place, it’s crucial that the Cupertino-born Odell is writing from the heart of Silicon Valley. One of her favorite counterexamples is the app iNaturalist, which helps identify flora and fauna in one’s local environment. ![]() “Rather,” she writes, “I am opposed to the way that corporate platforms buy and sell our attention, as well as to designs and uses of technology that enshrine a narrow definition of productivity and ignore the local, the carnal, and the poetic.” ![]() “How to Do Nothing” is not an antitechnology screed. The subtitle of Odell’s book is “Resisting the Attention Economy,” which, crucially, does not mean a blanket opposition to products like Twitter. I am opposed to the way that corporate platforms buy and sell our attention. ![]()
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