How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Designer Council housing is as much

Council housing is as much a part of the capital as Big Ben or Buckingham Palace

reveal our priorities and ambitions

their dilemmas

London-based Studio Janneke creates small collections of feel-good ceramics

the disaster of the Right to Buy scheme and Britain's ever-encroaching housing crisis has

How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Designer Council housing is as muchNothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24 7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most preciousand overdrawnresource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can