Jenny Odell

Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based artist, writer, and educator. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney's, and Sierra Magazine. Her visual work has been exhibited internationally, including as a mural on the side of a Google data center in rural Oklahoma. Odell has been an artist in residence at the Internet Archive, the San Francisco Planning Department, and Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump). She is a lecturer in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University.

Books

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Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from the “attention economy” to spend time in quiet contemplation. But what if you don’t have time to spend?In order to answer this seemingly simple question, Odell took a deep dive into the fundamental structure of our society and found that the clock we live by was built for profit, not people. This is why our lives, even in leisure, have come to seem like a series of moments to be bought, sold, and processed ever more efficiently. Odell shows us how our painful relationship to time is inextricably connected not only to persisting social inequities but to the climate crisis, existential dread, and a lethal fatalism.This dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book offers us different ways to experience time—inspired by pre-industrial cultures, ecological cues, and geological timescales—that can bring within reach a more humane, responsive way of living. As planet-bound animals, we live inside shortening and lengthening days alongside gardens growing, birds migrating, and cliffs eroding; the stretchy quality of waiting and desire; the way the present may suddenly feel marbled with childhood memory; the slow but sure procession of a pr...

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Resista nao faca nada - A Batalha pela Economia da Atencao (Em Portugues do Brasil)

PARA ALÉM DAS REDES Em um mundo onde a tecnologia viciante é projetada para comprar e vender nossa atenção, e nosso valor é determinado por uma produtividade 24 horas por dia, sete dias por semana, pode parecer impossível escapar dessa corrida por curtidas, sininhos e do sentimento de um grande vazio. Então, pare e não faça nada! Pois não há nada mais difícil atualmente do que não fazer nada. Para Jenny Odell, este ato vai além de se desligar da sociedade e viver como um eremita. Ou fazer reclamações superficiais sobre as mídias sociais, um “detox digital” ou um retiro no alto de uma montanha. A autora do Vale do Silício traz uma reflexão profunda, porque entende que a atenção humana é o recurso mais precioso que temos hoje e que se tornou uma moeda de troca muito valiosa. Resista: não faça nada é um olhar cuidadoso e embasado em pesquisas sobre como direcionar melhor nossa atenção nas redes, administrar o uso da tecnologia de modo a equilibrar a vida entre o mundo digital e o real. E dessa forma encontrar maneiras de reconstruir nossa conexão humana e entender nosso verdadeiro papel no mundo. Agora você tem em suas mãos as ferramentas necessárias para não se afogar em algoritmos virtuais e resistir à indústria da atenção.

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