Cómo no hacer nada

In a world where our worth is determined by productivity and performance, doing nothing can be our greatest form of protest. This is how Jenny Odell argues in this work, who radically questions the capitalization of our time, the profitability of our attention and the state of impatience and anxiety in which we live. Marked by the invasive logic of social media and the cult of personal branding, we've forgotten what inactivity means. From this perspective, "doing nothing" is buying time for ourselves, being contemplative and exercising perception, recovering the connection with physical reality and finding ways of relating to ourselves that neither companies nor algorithms benefit from. Far from anti-technology, How to do nothing is a manifesto against the discourse of efficiency and technodeterminism, an original essay in which recovering our space away from a dizzying pace constitutes an act of political resistance.