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Jenny Odell
Jenny Odell is the Books For author to start with when attention, time, place, ecology, and refusal all feel tangled together.
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Odell belongs in the social-media fatigue, doomscrolling, burnout, attention, and reading-life lanes because she gives readers a way to care without being captured. Her work asks what attention is for, who profits when it fragments, and how a life might become more local, embodied, and porous again.
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Start with How to Do Nothing if the live problem is attention and platform exhaustion. Read Saving Time if the deeper problem is productivity culture, time scarcity, and the feeling that life has become a clock you are always failing.
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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A refusal of platform urgency and productivity capture; a book about attention, place, ecology, public life, and caring differently.
Saving Time
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A wider, stranger book about time, work, climate, history, productivity culture, and imagining a life beyond constant extraction.
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