Jenny Odell
Artist and writer based in Oakland, California; author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time, and a longtime teacher of digital art.
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The process of training in athletics shares many similarities with the process of writing a book.
Their wordsThanks to my trainer, when I finally went off to the gym by myself, my workouts continued to be object lessons in a kindly self-awareness and the slow but sure nature of training that, on an everyday level, shares so much with the process of writing a book.
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Their wordsAnd if we were to dissolve the false dichotomy of art and sports, what would it allow us to see?
- 9 months earlier
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Their wordsWhat this means is that, like mountain feyness, certain thoughts and feelings can be said to occur only in certain places.
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Their wordsTaking landforms and non-human life seriously as co-authors and co-thinkers means believing that the future facing our environments represents a double threat: the mountain is in danger, therefore so is the ability of certain thoughts to come into being.
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Answers for how to brave the present may come from the relationship between humans and their places.
Their wordsFor if we do find answers for how to brave the present, with its floods and fires, and still keep the faith, they won't come from us alone. They will come from the strength that results from a tightened weave, story after story, between ourselves and our places.
- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsBut, as Alden noted on his blog, the shape and slope of a valley can't be hidden.
↗Reading the Rocks | by Jenny Odellemergencemagazine.org 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsFeatures of the land do not need to be covered in order to be hidden.
↗Reading the Rocks | by Jenny Odellemergencemagazine.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsA creek can be culverted in cement, but it can just as easily be erased by inattention, something I notice whenever I visit an old haunt after a long time.
↗Reading the Rocks | by Jenny Odellemergencemagazine.org 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 5 years earlier
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Their wordsTechnical aspects aside, the biggest difference between facial recognition in machines and in crows has to do with the ends of recognition, and thus how it feels to be recognized.
↗Columnists In Residenceopenspace.sfmoma.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsBut just as terrifying as a world without public anonymity is the idea of a world where we are not recognized at all.
↗Columnists In Residenceopenspace.sfmoma.org 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 15 months earlier
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Their wordsFor that reason, beyond its practical emphasis on local networks, there's something about bioregionalism that seems to satisfy the age-old human longing to be a member of a community, to be both in and of a place.
↗West coast is something nobody with sense would understand.openspace.sfmoma.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsAs Aldo Leopold wrote at the end of A Sand County Almanac, building a relationship with land "is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind."
↗West coast is something nobody with sense would understand.openspace.sfmoma.org 2nd of 2 in this piece