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

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  • Опубліковано 7 сер 2019
  • 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
    @Big_Dai 4 місяці тому +3

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

  • @christianthecopywriter
    @christianthecopywriter 3 роки тому +51

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

    • @praguequietmusiccollective5240
      @praguequietmusiccollective5240 2 роки тому +4

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

    • @oliviaallen8975
      @oliviaallen8975 2 роки тому +6

      @@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
      @AudioPervert1 Рік тому

      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
    @AustenSummers 4 роки тому +89

    Funniest title and channel combo of the year

    • @preetsutariya1664
      @preetsutariya1664 3 роки тому +3

      Lmao

    • @flyingspaghettimonster2925
      @flyingspaghettimonster2925 2 роки тому +1

      Absolutely

    • @robeltadesse8370
      @robeltadesse8370 Рік тому +1

      Was thinking the same

    • @AudioPervert1
      @AudioPervert1 Рік тому

      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.

  • @7amseel
    @7amseel Рік тому +5

    The most human talk I have ever listened!

  • @NilSatis1983
    @NilSatis1983 3 роки тому +17

    She’s an absolute star

  • @rickyrivera5489
    @rickyrivera5489 4 роки тому +8

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

  • @james6881
    @james6881 2 роки тому +14

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

  • @marcusaurielius7237
    @marcusaurielius7237 4 роки тому +18

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

  • @jurgenhuber4867
    @jurgenhuber4867 4 роки тому +13

    Great talk. Great thoughts.

  • @renatoatore
    @renatoatore 3 роки тому +17

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

    • @jazzianful
      @jazzianful 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @pairadeau
    @pairadeau 4 роки тому +5

    Excellent work. Bless.

  • @ukculturewarsexposed
    @ukculturewarsexposed 4 роки тому +3

    Great vid

  • @mikailmaqsood818
    @mikailmaqsood818 11 місяців тому +1

    @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'

  • @oliviaallen8975
    @oliviaallen8975 2 роки тому +17

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

    • @molchaniazolotovacommunica9015
      @molchaniazolotovacommunica9015 Рік тому

      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

  • @oxherder9061
    @oxherder9061 2 роки тому +15

    The utter irony of giving this talk at Google…

    • @oliviaallen8975
      @oliviaallen8975 2 роки тому +5

      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.

  • @Extys
    @Extys 4 роки тому +128

    lmao she's giving this talk at GOOGLE

    • @jamesgreenldn
      @jamesgreenldn 4 роки тому +17

      The irony!

    • @Extys
      @Extys 4 роки тому +25

      @@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
      @emmagiering2509 4 роки тому +40

      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
      @lkergjoieriojtgijteo 4 роки тому +25

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

    • @simeeeh
      @simeeeh 4 роки тому +11

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

  • @joeldwest
    @joeldwest 4 роки тому +17

    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
      @bettybeee 4 роки тому +17

      I'm glad he's your ex.

    • @ZachKopkaZake
      @ZachKopkaZake 2 роки тому +2

      Holy shi#

    • @edunlap6594
      @edunlap6594 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @agapon2023
    @agapon2023 Рік тому +1

    it was a pleasure listening to her

  • @heryr3011
    @heryr3011 4 роки тому +13

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

  • @haru9369
    @haru9369 4 роки тому +1

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

  • @science-guy
    @science-guy 3 роки тому +7

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

    • @ZachKopkaZake
      @ZachKopkaZake 2 роки тому

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

  • @BuickGeek24
    @BuickGeek24 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @delphiv4349
    @delphiv4349 5 місяців тому

    23:18 Impossibility of retreat

  • @AnimeshSharma1977
    @AnimeshSharma1977 4 роки тому +5

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

  • @kiwitrainguy
    @kiwitrainguy Рік тому

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

  • @RobRobertRobbie
    @RobRobertRobbie 3 роки тому +6

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

    • @ZachKopkaZake
      @ZachKopkaZake 2 роки тому

      Exactly she's basically full of shit.

  • @souravash
    @souravash 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @johnnyblackrants7625
    @johnnyblackrants7625 5 місяців тому

    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.

  • @flyingspaghettimonster2925
    @flyingspaghettimonster2925 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @u263a3
    @u263a3 Рік тому

    Do nothing, then get laid off at Google

  • @lasagnasandwich8454
    @lasagnasandwich8454 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @magsmonteiro2333
    @magsmonteiro2333 3 роки тому +1

    I just searched this cause I’m bored

    • @barca4k746
      @barca4k746 2 роки тому

      same hope you are better rn and me soon

  • @Mark-Zhark
    @Mark-Zhark 4 роки тому +4

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

  • @robert_trumpeteer
    @robert_trumpeteer 4 роки тому +5

    Useless, just like meeee!!!

  • @JH-ji6cj
    @JH-ji6cj 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @francesbreen1973
    @francesbreen1973 4 роки тому +11

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

    • @anidude98
      @anidude98 4 роки тому +7

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

    • @u263a3
      @u263a3 Рік тому

      Maybe this is what happens to people who do nothing

  • @Eyesayah
    @Eyesayah Рік тому

    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.

  • @alyssazadel151
    @alyssazadel151 3 роки тому +2

    This talk was awful. Had a quiz on it for school wasted my time watching this 6 times. Cant believe this talk was at Google

    • @alyssazadel151
      @alyssazadel151 3 роки тому +2

      Farah my teacher said she was going to assign it, but ended up not doing it because when she read it she said it was so boring.

    • @BuickGeek24
      @BuickGeek24 3 роки тому +1

      @@alyssazadel151 How are you?

  • @ZachKopkaZake
    @ZachKopkaZake 2 роки тому

    Dude she got famous because of the machine she's railing against and then stands on her pedestal readily🤔✌️😊🤗 anybody else say it? Hypocrites