The issue of authorship is central to the book Yellowface. A struggling writer takes a (deceased) successful writer’s first draft and, after editing it to polished completion, passes it off as her own. She rationalizes: The draft is so good, it deserves to be completed and released to the …
Finished reading: Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey 📚 This was a good choice to read closely after “How to Do Nothing”, because the two treat similar themes of resistance. For O’Dell, doing nothing is resistance in place against the powers that will steal our …
Just finished reading: How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell 📚 The subtitle of this book is “Resisting the Attention Economy”, and that’s what hooked me. I’ve been reading up on attention on and off for over a year now, mostly cognitive psychology and more academic fare. …