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Moving from Shallow Attention to Life-Enhancing Sustained Attention - Jenny Odell - C0486

Moving from Shallow Attention to Life-Enhancing Sustained Attention - Jenny Odell - C0486

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Jenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer based in Oakland, California who teaches at Stanford University. She has been an artist-in-residence at such places as the San Francisco dump, Facebook, the Internet Archive, and the San Francisco Planning Department, and has exhibited her art all over the world. She is the author of: How To Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy (Melville House Publishing 2019).


Interview Date: 8/30/2019 Tags: MP3, Jenny Odell, technodeterminism, age of soylent, The Dump art installation, Recology San Francisco, David Hockney, A Bigger Exhibition, slow art, Ellsworth Kelly,Blue Green Black Red, attention, shallow attention, reactive attention, impatient attention, bird watching, sustained attention, ego-dissolving attention, angry tweet mob, crows, fear, anxiety, bioregion, loneliness, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweet Grass, Social Change/Politics, Art & Creativity, Philosophy, Technology, Money/Economics

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