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very incisive and relevant and vocalises the harmful effects of the current climate on social media
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this book has galvanized me to change something about my lifestyle/outlook in a way no book has in a loooong time. if youâve ever wondered what a solution to the climate crisis could look like that doesnât rely on the state enforcing top-down solutions at the cost of individual liberties, doesnât rely on capitalist corporations selling you technology to profit from crisis and that causes exploitation in the foreign countries where its raw materials are extracted from, doesnât divert responsibility onto individuals by insisting itâs your fault for not using metal straws, and doesnât bank on wishful thinking that AI will provide a lifestyle of luxury for all, but that instead emphasizes reprioritizing connection to community and communal self governance, meaningful labor and a sustainable work life balance, the human right to their environment, and an economic shift towards prioritizing practical use over scarcity-based profiteering, then this book is for you. we will have to stop growing our global economy though, but itâs actually going to be better that way.
May 30, 2024
it's time to open up the schools again.
I think this was a depressing yet necessary read đ
Feb 2, 2025
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason itâs still standing is bc itâs unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isnât just charting the attention economy but also attempting to âsolveâ it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024
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not big words but words u just donât hear often⊠like yea drop a casual âinsouciantâ. whatâs all this vocab for if we canât use it ??
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