EP 13: JE REFUSE (Jenny Odell)
New Models
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How to Resist the Attention Economy
Julian Zelizer: I like wooden straws because they kind of retain the memory of every beverage you've sipped away from. Zelizer: We think we manufacture 500 billion straws a year, but there's really no need for them. He says he was inspired by an Amazon piece about how to resist the Attention Economy that led him to work on his book How To Do Nothing. "A lot of what I do and think about comes out of a desire to address that problem," writes Zelizer.
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