Explore Salon Quotes Lists Reviews Writings

—

Changelog About Contact Privacy Donate

Jenny Odell | lit.salon

Author

Jenny Odell

Born 1986

6 works

2015–2023 across 6 dated works

American author and multidisciplinary artist

Start with

Archive of the Bureau of Suspended Objects2015
Bureau of Suspended Objects at the Palo Alto Art Center2016
Bureau of Suspended Objects: Objects in Use2016
How to Do Nothing Resisting the Attention Economy2019
With Rebecca Gibel

Books

6 works

Featured (6)Featured (6)All (6)All (6)

Search booksSort books

How to Do Nothing Resisting the Attention Economy2019
With Rebecca Gibel
13 editions
shelves
14
reviews
2
lists
8
quotes
2
Saving Time Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock2023
7 editions
shelves
1
reviews
0
lists
0
quotes
0
Bureau of Suspended Objects: Objects in Use2016
3 editions
shelves
0
reviews
0
lists
0
quotes
0
Inhabiting the Negative Space2021
1 edition
shelves
0
reviews
0
lists
0
quotes
0
Archive of the Bureau of Suspended Objects2015
1 edition
shelves
0
reviews
0
lists
0
quotes
0
Bureau of Suspended Objects at the Palo Alto Art Center2016
1 edition
shelves
0
reviews
0
lists
0
quotes
0

End of results

Readers in conversation

Around the salon

Public notes, reviews, lists, and conversations around Jenny Odell.

List·Feb 12, 2026

To read

A reader-curated list

@devilfumoonHow to Do Nothing Resisting the Attention Economy

List·Jul 14, 2025

collection - unrefined as of yet sorted by surname, Aᵃ—Zᶻ artworks are all first edition

@zonHow to Do Nothing Resisting the Attention Economy

Review·Feb 5, 2025

I like it when she talks about birds

and Epicurus

@narrativity-sceneonHow to Do Nothing Resisting the Attention Economy

Quote·Sep 7, 2024

Jenny Odell

If you become interested in the health of the place where you are...I have a warning: you will see more destruction than progress.

@readingpopclassicsonHow to Do Nothing Resisting the Attention Economy

Quote·Sep 7, 2024

Jenny Odell

Regardless of how high-tech your society might be, "peace" is an endless negotiation among free-acting agents whose wills cannot be engineered.

@readingpopclassicsonHow to Do Nothing Resisting the Attention Economy

Review·Jul 6, 2024

a nice rant

holy shit i love doing nothing. well nothing particularly as a act of resisting the "doing" of our sick and twisted productivity culture. forget about corporate notions of work as a "passion". let passions be passions and work be work. and fuck the word hobby…

@regrettablycafeonHow to Do Nothing Resisting the Attention Economy