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I’ve grouped the second essays people have posted according to the writer they’ve written about. My thinking is that if you wrote about, say, Ressler & Thompson, you might want to read and comment on (for W19) what other people had to say about them.
At the same time, though, I’d like to put in a plug for the essays listed under “Other Writers”. These are pieces written by people who pursued an angle in reading Odell that no one else did. Many of their essays are quite striking and original. You should read them!
Jason Lanier, Ten Reasons for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Now
- Lauren C, How to Escape: Adding Jaron Lanier’s Reasons to Delete Social Media
- Miranda A, Ten Reasons for Doing Nothing: Reading Jenny Odell, Reading Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
- Angel C, I’d Prefer Not to: An Ode to Jenny Odell’s Refusal
- Brandon B, Bartleby, the Scrivener : Jenny Odell’s Interpretations Against My Own
- Dale B, Economy and Mental Health: Discussing Jenny Odell’s Overview of “Bartleby”
- Gianna S, Resistance Under Different Types of Capitalism
- Nicole S, Basic Human Nature
- Soren S, I’d Prefer Not To: Being Bullied by Capitalism
- Spencer S, Creating an Environment of Negotiation
- Tyler M, Working your Own Way: Jenny Odell’s Connection to Bartleby
Cali Ressler & Jodi Thompson, Why Work Sucks
- Andrew P, Taking Advantage of Time
- Hoda Q, Robots but Humans: Reading Jenny Odell Reading Ressler & Thompson
- Stuart A, Changing the Way We Work: Reading Jenny Odell Reading Why Work Sucks
B. F. Skinner, Walden Two
- Ethan P, Behaviorism at Walden Two: Reading Odell and Skinner
- Katie O, Undercover Behaviorist: Odell’s Take on Skinner’s Theories
- Rob M, Becoming a Lambkin: How Odell and Skinner are Rebels
Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell
- Cheryl K, Finding Joy, Care, and Meaning: Rebecca Solnit’s Expansion of Jenny Odell’s View of Altruism in Times of Disaster
- Suneil H, Psychology and Bringing People Together After Disasters
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, and Walking
- Cameron H, Walden’s Influence on Odell
- Joshua G, Reflections on Walden Pond
- Gwyneth C, The Combination of Voices: The Overlapping Views of Jenny Odell and Henry David Thoreau In “How to Do Nothing”
Other Writers
- Andy C, Diogenes Explains How to Do Nothing
- Hannah S, Diving Deeper: The full depth of “This is Water” in Odell’s book
- Jacob W, Restructuring the Organized System
- Kale S, An Outsider’s Perspective: A deep dive of Ursla K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing
- Matthew M, Inanimate Connection: Reading David Abram
- Michael R, Inside Minimum Wage: Reading Jenny Odell Reading Ehrenreich
- Nick C, Stand Apart From Being Apart: Reading Jenny Odell Reading Epicurus
- Patrick S, Living in the Present: The Connection Between Jenny Odell and Franco Berardi
E110: Seminar in Composition 