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Aug 2022
42m 13s

S3 Ep5: Resisting the Attention Economy ...

PRENTIS HEMPHILL
About this episode

Join us for some moss talk, discovering the infinite from within our own space and how to resist the attention economy with Jenny Odell.

Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based artist, writer, and birder whose work attempts to shift our perception of the everyday and cultivate endangered forms of attention. A former studio art instructor at Stanford, she is the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy and is currently at work on a second book.


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