The Secret World of Doing Nothing.

"This is one of those rare books that causes you to rethink all your previous understandings of both time and space, to pay attention to what you have hitherto ignored or belittled. Full of fascinating detail, Ehn and Lofgren's work opens up a whole new field of inquiry."John Gillis,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Lfgren, Orvar
Other Authors: Ehn, Billy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Secret World of Doing Nothing; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Waiting; 2. Routines; 3. Daydreaming; 4. In the Backyards of Modernity?; Appendix: Doing an Ethnography of "Non-events"; Notes; References; Index.