Withdrawing attention is presented as one possible tactic among many

Evidence

By the same token, there are many different places where manifest dismantling can begin to work. Wherever we are, and whatever privileges we may or may not enjoy, there is probably some thread we can afford to be pulling on. Sometimes boycotting the attention economy by withholding attention is the only action we can afford to take. Other times, we can actively look for ways to impact things like the addictive design of technology, but also environmental politics, labor rights, women’s rights, indigenous rights, anti-racism initiatives, measures for parks and open spaces, and habitat restoration—understanding that pain comes not from one part of the body but from systemic imbalance. As in any ecology, the fruits of our efforts within any of these fields may well reach beyond to the others. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 666

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the crux for defending Odell against the withdrawal misreading — she explicitly casts attention-withholding as a fallback, not the prescription, of manifest dismantling.
• SEED: Direct material for an essay rebutting the ‘Odell says do nothing/withdraw’ misreading, quoting the passage where withdrawal is framed as the minimum, not the goal.