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3.73 AVERAGE
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
A whole lot of great one liners, and small anecdotes, about living more mindfully. Unfortunately, they are not artfully connected. There is no story.
medium-paced
reflective
slow-paced
I don't really get who this book is for, I found it almost apolitical despite being "anticapitalist" (in vibes only), but I am happy if it introduces people to having relationships with land, resisting exploitative media consumption, birdwatching, etc.
Mixed feelings. I find myself agreeing with the book but finding it pretty unconvincing.
Her attention flits between some Walter Benjamin and then about her developing a bird watching hobby and decentralized internet networks. Sure it's organic musing but feels like the inquiry is superficial. For a book whose central takeaway is resisting the attention economy, there's less struggle (and I say this in the annoying hand-wavey-lefty way) than I would have expected.
Happy that this book means a lot to people and to her. Im just kind of dismayed that this kind of aesthetic-friendly musing ramble is the bar we hold this kind of argument to. At least now I can better appreciate David Hockney. Oh and I liked her ecology writing.
For other works that I think convey Odell's points in a more robust way:
The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing
Flight Ways by Thom Van Dooren
Seeing Like a State by James Scott
Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang
Her attention flits between some Walter Benjamin and then about her developing a bird watching hobby and decentralized internet networks. Sure it's organic musing but feels like the inquiry is superficial. For a book whose central takeaway is resisting the attention economy, there's less struggle (and I say this in the annoying hand-wavey-lefty way) than I would have expected.
Happy that this book means a lot to people and to her. Im just kind of dismayed that this kind of aesthetic-friendly musing ramble is the bar we hold this kind of argument to. At least now I can better appreciate David Hockney. Oh and I liked her ecology writing.
For other works that I think convey Odell's points in a more robust way:
The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing
Flight Ways by Thom Van Dooren
Seeing Like a State by James Scott
Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I wanted to like this, but it was so obviously written pre COVID that it just doesn’t hold up.
I wanted to like this book but just wasn’t able to. The title is quite misleading in that this is not a “how to” book. It provides a rather meandering collection of research, influences, and literature that have contributed to the attention economy or our understanding of it. While this is an intellectual composition, it is not what I was looking for and thus enjoyed it less than perhaps someone who knew the nature of this book before going in.
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced