Kick off our Digital Age Survival Kit series by joining Readers' Services librarian Julia for a discussion about the Jenny Odell's book How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.

"After the American presidential election of 2016, Jenny Odell felt so overstimulated and disoriented by information, misinformation, and the expressions of others, that reality itself seemed to slip away. How To Do Nothing is her action plan for resistance. Drawing on the ethos of tech culture, a background in the arts, and personal storytelling, Jenny Odell makes a powerful argument for refusal: refusal to believe that our lives are instruments to be optimized. She argues that nothing can be quite so radical as doing... nothing."

Participants are encouraged to pick up a copy of the book (available at the Info Services Desk), but you do not need to read the book in order to attend this discussion!