Duke University Press
Doing Nothing
Regular price
$19.95 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$19.95 USD
Unit price
per
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Couldn't load pickup availability
Title: Doing Nothing
Author: James Currie
ISBN: 9781478033059
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2026
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 104
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: Doing Nothing is a book about doing nothing in a system where there is always something pressing that ought to be done. Not the productive unstructured time of self-help books, but the aimless and ineffective doing nothing of procrastination, resignation, and melancholia. James Currie pursues these themes across a wide terrain of experiences, materials, and examples from the personal, local, and anecdotal, through to the existential, cosmological, and apocalyptic--reflecting, among other things, on the COVID pandemic, the lives of teenagers, Lars Van Trier's 2011 film Melancholia, work, play, and politics. Doing Nothing offers a lived-in embrace of queer states of being that stand against liveliness and the mournful feelings of entrapment and shame that exist alongside the unexpected opportunities such situations afford.
Author: James Currie
ISBN: 9781478033059
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2026
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 104
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: Doing Nothing is a book about doing nothing in a system where there is always something pressing that ought to be done. Not the productive unstructured time of self-help books, but the aimless and ineffective doing nothing of procrastination, resignation, and melancholia. James Currie pursues these themes across a wide terrain of experiences, materials, and examples from the personal, local, and anecdotal, through to the existential, cosmological, and apocalyptic--reflecting, among other things, on the COVID pandemic, the lives of teenagers, Lars Van Trier's 2011 film Melancholia, work, play, and politics. Doing Nothing offers a lived-in embrace of queer states of being that stand against liveliness and the mournful feelings of entrapment and shame that exist alongside the unexpected opportunities such situations afford.
