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reifying

a more and more reified version of "myself"

—p.138 by Jenny Odell
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fear renders young people less able to concentrate

In the context of attention, I’d further venture that this fear renders young people less able to concentrate individually or collectively. An atomized and competitive atmosphere obstructs individual attention because everything else disappears in a fearful and myopic battle for stability. It obstr…

—p.89 How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
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as good wages as the industry can afford

[...] As thousands of men picketed up and down the Embarcadero, a daily spectacle whose consistency impressed onlookers, the police decided to selectively apply a previously un-enforced ordinance against picketing, running the picketers off the sidewalk with horses. Meanwhile, employers ran cloying…

—p.78 by Jenny Odell
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participating in the “wrong way”

But most important, standing apart represents the moment in which the desperate desire to leave (forever!) matures into a commitment to live in permanent refusal, where one already is, and to meet others in the common space of that refusal. This kind of resistance still manifests as participating…

—p.62 by Jenny Odell
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absolutely unprofitable to corporations

At some point, I began to think of this as an activist book disguised as a self-help book. I’m not sure that it’s fully either. But as much as I hope this book has something to offer you, I also hope it has something to contribute to activism, mostly by providing a rest stop for those on the their …

—p.xxii by Jenny Odell