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S3 Ep5: Resisting the Attention Economy with Jenny Odell

Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

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How to Pay More Attention to the Sunset

Sally Kohn: I love that when I was reading your book, I was staying at this place where I slept for four days. And I was sitting by a pond and I would watch this really intense duck drama play out. It's all kinds of things were happening with the ducks. She says there are basically different forms of attention or like sort of depth. The artist is trying to do that for you in his work, she says. So it's like, let me hold this frame constant so that you can see the sunset.

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