I first noticed this book online, I loved the cover art, but I only decided to read it after picking up a copy, flipping to a random page, and finding Odell talking about David Hockney.
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A worldview where everything doesn’t exist for us
I’m reading How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell, and she mentions the German philosopher Martin Buber and his book I and Thou. For Buber, there are two ways of looking at the world: I–It In the I–It way of looking, I …
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Hockney’s wandering eye photos
I started reading Jenny Odell’s book How to Do Nothing. I bought this book a while ago. I was browsing the book at Dussmann, opened a random page which happened to be page 96 and Odell was talking about David …
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Why go down the rabbit hole
Jenny Odell writes in How to Do Nothing: So why go down the rabbit hole? First and most basically, it is enjoyable. Curiosity, something we know most of all from childhood, is a forward-driving force that derives …