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

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

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4 жыл бұрын

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.
Get the book here: goo.gle/2KmCUAP

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@Big_Dai 5 ай бұрын

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

@christianthecopywriter 3 жыл бұрын

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

@praguequietmusiccollective5240 2 жыл бұрын

What judgement of her would that be? (Honest question.)

@oliviaallen8975 2 жыл бұрын

@@praguequietmusiccollective5240 a lot of people are judging her for giving this talk at Google. Which says to me they are just not at all understanding what she’s saying.

@AudioPervert1 Жыл бұрын

Google itself a champion of late capitalism. A global dominator of Surveillance Data. The term "Economy Of Attention" is actually from early 1990s, used first by Franco Bifo Berardi. A mass murderer like Barack Obama (ex warmonkey of USA) also cited the book as great, as well as the New York Times. What a diabolic place America and it's tech is. Trust all these parties to talk about what is wrong with the internet today and serve the powers which own it. In essence, the book is great and F**K Google thru and thru.

@AustenSummers 4 жыл бұрын

Funniest title and channel combo of the year

@preetsutariya1664 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@flyingspaghettimonster2925 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@robeltadesse8370 Жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same

@AudioPervert1 Жыл бұрын

@NilSatis1983 3 жыл бұрын

She’s an absolute star

@rickyrivera5489 4 жыл бұрын

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

@brendabailey6626 Жыл бұрын

10:37pm

@renatoatore 3 жыл бұрын

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

@jazzianful 2 жыл бұрын

She actually discusses that at length in the book. I recommend it.

@7amseel Жыл бұрын

The most human talk I have ever listened!

@joeldwest 4 жыл бұрын

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".

@bettybeee 4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad he's your ex.

@ZachKopkaZake 2 жыл бұрын

Holy shi#

@edunlap6594 2 жыл бұрын

Work 20hrs daily while he works...zero probably.

@marcusaurielius7237 4 жыл бұрын

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

@marcusaurielius7237 4 жыл бұрын

Explaining*

@james6881 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ukculturewarsexposed 4 жыл бұрын

Great vid

@mikailmaqsood818 Жыл бұрын

@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'

@oxherder9061 2 жыл бұрын

The utter irony of giving this talk at Google…

@oliviaallen8975 2 жыл бұрын

Which goes perfectly into what the book is about and everything she just said. Which basically cancels out the irony. She’s well aware. It’s not about circumventing society entirely, as she states. It’s not about avoiding entirely any one given aspect of what she’s critiquing.

@science-guy 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ZachKopkaZake 2 жыл бұрын

No she's telling you how to be lazy and be nothing. She's laughing so hard it's ridiculous

@jurgenhuber4867 4 жыл бұрын

Great talk. Great thoughts.

@pairadeau 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent work. Bless.

@oliviaallen8975 2 жыл бұрын

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

@molchaniazolotovacommunica9015 Жыл бұрын

Any example? The term sounds too #sophisticated In my experience "seeing the big picture" and not getting lost in minor nuances is a way more important to focus

@heryr3011 4 жыл бұрын

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

@BuickGeek24 3 жыл бұрын

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

@agapon2023 Жыл бұрын

it was a pleasure listening to her

@delphiv4349 6 ай бұрын

23:18 Impossibility of retreat

@haru9369 4 жыл бұрын

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

@Extys 4 жыл бұрын

lmao she's giving this talk at GOOGLE

@jamesgreenldn 4 жыл бұрын

The irony!

@Extys 4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesgreenldn It's like giving a talk promoting the vegan lifestyle at the local slaughterhouse. The people she's addressing are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year *precisely* thanks to Google having such a large market share of the attention economy.

@emmagiering2509 4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps she is trying to reorient the way software engineers think and design. By only giving talks to people who already gravitate to her work, she's limiting the impact of her life's work.

@lkergjoieriojtgijteo 4 жыл бұрын

@@Extys funny you should say that, a local slaughterhouse strikes me as the perfect place to promote a vegan lifestyle.

@simeeeh 4 жыл бұрын

Lol why not? People at google need to hear it the most..

@AnimeshSharma1977 4 жыл бұрын

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

@kiwitrainguy Жыл бұрын

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

@RobRobertRobbie 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ZachKopkaZake 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly she's basically full of shit.

@johnnyblackrants7625 6 ай бұрын

I hope someday we get one of these kinds of talks in the context of economics. How do we preserve the benefits of capitalism while avoiding the pitfalls. So often, it just feels like the speaker hasn't taken econ 101.

@souravash 3 жыл бұрын

She's so sweet, I hardly noticed what she spoke! 😊

@flyingspaghettimonster2925 2 жыл бұрын

And yet this talk is happening at Google. What a corporate grift.

@u263a3 Жыл бұрын

Do nothing, then get laid off at Google

@magsmonteiro2333 3 жыл бұрын

I just searched this cause I’m bored

@barca4k746 2 жыл бұрын

same hope you are better rn and me soon

@lasagnasandwich8454 2 жыл бұрын

This takes “when you’re a genius at something stupid” to a whole another level 😂

@robert_trumpeteer 4 жыл бұрын

Useless, just like meeee!!!

@JH-ji6cj 3 жыл бұрын

Does she not know that _silence=violence_ ?🤪🤦‍♂️

@Mark-Zhark 4 жыл бұрын

How not to say “um” during a public speech?

@tonyisnotdead 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone does it

@francesbreen1973 4 жыл бұрын

Okay content. Horrible presentation. Like listening to a teenager.

@anidude98 4 жыл бұрын

As it turns out I believe Ms. Odell *was* a teenager. So I think you may have something on your hands there!

@u263a3 Жыл бұрын

Maybe this is what happens to people who do nothing

@Eyesayah Жыл бұрын

That not a winning way of talking with her hands, like Kamala. Much speaking. Being still while hoping for gain is the wrong effort according to various teachers. (With a view to having something valuable to say later). I'm all for recognizing that we are earthlings, and for honoring tradition; but it seems wrapped in decadence here.