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The secret world of doing nothing [[electronic resource] /] / Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren



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Autore: Ehn Billy <1946-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The secret world of doing nothing [[electronic resource] /] / Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
Disciplina: 790.1
Soggetto topico: Leisure - Philosophy
Leisure - Psychological aspects
Soggetto non controllato: anthropologists
daily lives
daydreaming
doing nothing
empty times
enlightening
ethnographers
ethnography
everyday lives
examples
finding meaning
free time
hypermodern reality
imagination
insightful
literature
mental value
modern life
nonfiction account
quiet time
reflection
reflective time
research
rethink ordinary
routine tasks
slow down
thought provoking
time and space
time to self
unobserved moments
waiting time
while away time
Altri autori: LöfgrenOrvar  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Waiting -- Chapter Two. Routines -- Chapter Three. Daydreaming -- Chapter Four. In the Backyards of Modernity? -- APPENDIX. DOING AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF "NON-EVENTS" -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Sommario/riassunto: In this insightful and pathbreaking reflection on "doing nothing," Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren take us on a fascinating tour of what is happening when, to all appearances, absolutely nothing is happening. Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn from literature, published ethnographies, and firsthand research, they probe the unobserved moments in our daily lives-waiting for a bus, daydreaming by the window, performing a routine task-and illuminate these "empty" times as full of significance. Creative, insightful, and profound, The Secret World of Doing Nothing leads us to rethink the ordinary and find meaning in today's hypermodern reality.
Titolo autorizzato: The secret world of doing nothing  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-77280-5
9786612772801
0-520-94570-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784956503321
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