The Forum with Jenny Odell: How To Do Nothing (In-Person)

Sun, 02 Nov, 2025 at 09:30 am UTC-08:00

1100 California Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94108 | San Francisco

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
Publisher/HostGrace Cathedral, San Francisco
 The Forum with Jenny Odell: How To Do Nothing (In-Person)
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In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives.
Odell is an artist, writer, and educator whose work focuses on close observation of the everyday world. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock and How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Odell about sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. How to Do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.
Join Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean of Grace Cathedral, for a conversation with Odell about paying a new kind of attention, undertaking bolder forms of political action, reimagining humankind’s role in the environment, and arriving at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.
“She struck a hopeful nerve of possibility that I hadn’t felt in a long time.”—Jia Tolentino, THE NEW YORKER
“This book will change how you see the world.”—Malcolm Harris, author and Forum guest!
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