A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention-and our personal information-that redefines what we think of as efficiency, reconnects us with the surroundings, and reveals everything we have been too distracted to find out about ourselves and the world.

Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our worth is determined by our 24/7 data efficiency . doing nothing could be our most important form of level of resistance. So argues musician and critic Jenny Odell with this about How to accomplish Nothing: Resisting the interest Economy field guidebook to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our interest as the most precious-and overdrawn-resource we’ve. Once we can start paying a new kind of interest, she writes, we are able to undertake bolder forms of politics actions, reimagine humankind’s part in the surroundings, and reach more meaningful understandings of pleasure and progress.

Far from the easy anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature yoga we read frequently, How to carry out Nothing is an action arrange for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and absolutely persuasive, this publication is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent.