Jenny Odell on attention, where we put it, and how it can polarise society | The Sacred

Jenny Odell is an American multi-disciplinary artist, former art teacher at Stanford University and author of the New York Times best selling book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.

She spoke about attention, where we put it, how it shapes and forms us, and how it could be the key to understanding our increasingly polarised societies.

Read the full transcript here: https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comm...

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