Name: Doing Nothing
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Author: James Currie

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Publisher

Duke University Press

Author

James Currie

Collection

Practices

Year

2026

Pages

104

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

17.8x12.7 cm

ISBN13

9781478029601

Doing Nothing

James Currie (Author) · Duke University Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Doing Nothing"

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.