And she’s a visual artist who has taught digital and physical design at Stanford since 2013, as well as done. It is furthermore the cult of individuality and personal branding that grow out of such platforms and affect the way we think about our offline selves and the places where we actually live. Odell is the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. But the villain here is not necessarily the Internet, or even the idea of social media it is the invasive logic of commercial social media and its financial incentive to keep us in a profitable state of anxiety, envy, and distraction. I am concerned about the effects of current social media on expression-including the right not to express oneself-and its deliberately addictive features. Rather, I am opposed to the way that corporate platforms buy and sell our attention, as well as to designs and uses of technology that enshrine a narrow definition of productivity and ignore the local, the carnal, and the poetic. After all, there are forms of technology-from tools that let us observe the natural world to decentralized, noncommercial social networks-that might situate us more fully in the present.
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