CLEVELAND, Ohio — In her 2019 book, “How To Do Nothing,” conceptual artist Jenny Odell promoted abstinence from social media as a way to escape the poisonous colonization of the mind through the online “attention economy.”
In a spirit similar to that of Henry David Thoreau, she advocated withdrawing from digital doom scrolling in order to refresh and replenish one’s consciousness through healing encounters with nature and public space in the real world.
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