Not doing nothing differs from wholly escaping the world or other people

Evidence

This is the beginning of an ongoing distinction I’ll make between 1) escaping “the world” (or even just other people) entirely and 2) remaining in place while escaping the framework of the attention economy and an over-reliance on a filtered public opinion. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 36

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core distinction defusing the withdrawal misreading: refusal-in-place vs. total escape.
• SEED: Directly supplies the defense against the title’s misleading ‘do nothing as retreat’ reading.
• XREF: connects to: Escaping the attention economy differs from escaping the world entirely — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 36; Freedom means choosing oneself within one’s world, not choosing the world itself.; Doing nothing can take the constructive form of alternative world-building — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 661 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Escaping the attention economy differs from escaping the world entirely — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 36; Freedom means choosing oneself within one’s world, not choosing the world itself.; Doing nothing can take the constructive form of alternative world-building — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 661 (+5 more)