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Doing Nothing

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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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781478033059
  • ISBN-10: 1478033053
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publish Date: February 2026
  • Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.2 pounds
  • Page Count: 104

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