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Introduction

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Liming, S. (2023). Introduction. In Liming, S. Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time. Melville House Publishing, pp. 7-32

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But this view of hanging out obscures the creative nature of indolence: creativity takes thought and thought takes time. What I’m arguing for here, then, is the reclaiming of time, which is both the essence of hanging out and its main ingredient, along with the reclaiming of the basic material components that are required for the so-called killing of time, by which I mean space. When we set aside time and space for hanging out, we assert our right to be non-productive, in the economic sense, and likewise our right to produce differently, by focusing on the work that is required for the strengthening of social ties. [...]

—p.xix by Sheila Liming 1 year, 6 months ago

But this view of hanging out obscures the creative nature of indolence: creativity takes thought and thought takes time. What I’m arguing for here, then, is the reclaiming of time, which is both the essence of hanging out and its main ingredient, along with the reclaiming of the basic material components that are required for the so-called killing of time, by which I mean space. When we set aside time and space for hanging out, we assert our right to be non-productive, in the economic sense, and likewise our right to produce differently, by focusing on the work that is required for the strengthening of social ties. [...]

—p.xix by Sheila Liming 1 year, 6 months ago

(adjective) requiring immediate aid or action / (adjective) requiring or calling for much; demanding

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What she’s saying is that manifestos, as a genre, aspire to an impossible kind of exigence. They conjure feelings of immediacy that cannot be borne out since, by nature, any published manifesto is doomed to make a delayed entrance

cool

—p.xviii by Sheila Liming
notable
1 year, 6 months ago

What she’s saying is that manifestos, as a genre, aspire to an impossible kind of exigence. They conjure feelings of immediacy that cannot be borne out since, by nature, any published manifesto is doomed to make a delayed entrance

cool

—p.xviii by Sheila Liming
notable
1 year, 6 months ago