How To Do Nothing

5/10/19 - Constant smart phone use may not be great for us, but what are we supposed to do instead? Artist and writer Jenny Odell explores how we reclaim our time and attention in her new book, How to Do Nothing.

Transcript below.

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Producer: Gina Delvac

Hosts: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman

Theme song: Call Your Girlfriend by Robyn

Composer: Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs.

Associate Producer: Jordan Bailey

Visual Creative Director: Kenesha Sneed

Merch Director: Caroline Knowles

Editorial Assistant: Laura Bertocci

Design Assistant: Brijae Morris

Ad sales: Midroll

What it Takes to Put Your Phone Away by Jia Tolentino

A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

4:33 by John Cage, a musical composition built on silence

Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield

Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich

After the Future by Franco Berardi

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell… and more of Jenny Odell’s writing and art

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