Jenny Odell in Conversation with Helen Macdonald: How to Do Nothing and Vesper Flights - 92Y, New York
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Jenny Odell in Conversation with Helen Macdonald: How to Do Nothing and Vesper Flights

Jenny Odell and Helen Macdonald

Join New York Times-bestselling writers Jenny Odell (How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy) and Helen Macdonald (Vesper Flights and H Is for Hawk) for a conversation about the relationship between attention, technology, and the natural world.

Named by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of 2019, Odell’s How to Do Nothing lays out a refreshing and persuasive argument for reclaiming our lives from addictive technology, reimagining how we might think about our social relationships in the process—dovetailing perfectly with Macdonald’s Vesper Flights, a passionately astute examination of the links between humans and animals. Hear them discuss each other’s work and how 21st century technology has transformed our understandings of our politics and ourselves—and what we stand to gain by reclaiming our sense of wonder at the natural world.

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Jenny Odell

Jenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford University …

Jenny Odell

Jenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford University. She has been an artist-in-residence at places such as the San Francisco dump, Facebook, the Internet Archive, and the San Francisco Planning Department, and has exhibited her art all over the world. She lives in Oakland, California, with her sometimes-pet crow.

Helen Macdonald

Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator and naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science …

Helen Macdonald

Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator and naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of the bestselling H Is for Hawk, as well as a cultural history of falcons, titled Falcon, and three collections of poetry, including Shaler’s Fish. Macdonald was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, has worked as a professional falconer, and has assisted with the management of raptor research and conservation projects across Eurasia. She now writes for the New York Times Magazine.

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