Are You Sure You Want to Quit?
online ever unplug? The question has spawned a cottage industry: everything from offline vacations and “digital detox” apps to books about how we might uncouple ourselves from an economic order in which our very attention is a commodity. Two thoughtful offerings in the latter category come from Oakland, California, artist Jenny Odell, author of , and writer Jia Tolentino, author of (whose press materials describe her as “what Susan Sontag would have been like if she had brain damage from and a twitchily funny Twitter presence, Odell and Tolentino joined in an online chat, condensed here, about how to reclaim and retrain our attention in an economy built on capturing and manipulating it. We talked over Slack, which was a bit like holding a mindfulness seminar on the infield of the Indy 500.
