how to do nothing
a break to do nothing, to just listen, to remember in the deepest sense what, when, and where we are.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
As many commentators have opined, the COVID-19 pandemic has occasioned a “Great Pause,” a “fertile suspension” that opened up “bountiful space and time for deeper wakefulness.” 2 We saw such wakefulness evidenced in the contemplation of community and injustice, the creation of mutual aid networks, and the resurgence of Black Lives Matter. And we sa... See more
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
But the next time I was flying home—from New York to California—I tried to take a page out of my former seatmate’s near-empty book. I didn’t turn on my monitor. I didn’t race through a novel. I didn’t even consciously try to do nothing: when an idea came to me or I recalled something I had to do back home, I pulled out a notebook and scribbled it d
... See morePico Iyer • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
