Quotes 20: Jenny Odell

"When the pattern of your attention has changed, you render your reality differently. You begin to move and act in a different kind of world."

–– Jenny Odell, American artist, writer and educator

Source: Jenny Odell. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Publishing, 2019, p. 122.

I read Odell's How to Do Nothing in early summer of 2020 during Covid-19 lockdown and it comforted me. I often wondered what Odell was making of this "period of removal" from ordinary life.