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21. David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (New York: Vintage, 1997), x.
22. Marisa Meltzer, “Soak, Steam, Spritz: It’s All Self Care,” The New York Times, December 10, 2016: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/fashion/post-election-anxiety-self-care.html.
23. Gordon Hempton, “Welcome to One Square Inch: A Sanctuary for Silence at Olympia National Park”: https://onesquareinch.org/.
24. Berardi, 68.
25. https://queensmuseum.org/2016/04/mierle-laderman-ukeles-maintenance-art, pg. 3.
26. Ibid., pg. 1.
27. City of Oakland Parks and Recreation, “64th Annual Mother of the Year Award—Call for Nominations,” 2017: http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/opr/documents/image/oak063029.pdf.
28. Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 83.
29. Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, 69.
30. Ibid., pg. 1.
Chapter 2
1. Henry Martin, Agnes Martin: Painter, Pioneer, Icon (Tucson, AZ: Schaffner Press, 2018), 294.
2. Michelle Magnan, “Levi Felix Interview,” AskMen, March 4, 2014: https://www.askmen.com/entertainment/austin/levi-felix-interview.html.
3. “RIP Levi Felix,” The Reaper, January 17, 2017: http://thereaper.rip/rip-levi-felix/.
4. Smiley Poswolsky, “The Man Who Gave Us All the Things: Celebrating the Legacy of Levi Felix, Camp Grounded Director and Digital Detox Visionary,” Medium, January 12, 2017: https://medium.com/dear-levi/the-man-who-gave-us-all-the-things-e83ab612ce5c.
5. Digital Detox, “Digital Detox® Retreats”: http://digitaldetox.org/retreats/.
6. Poswolsky.
7. Sophie Morris, “Burning Man: From far out freak-fest to corporate schmoozing event,” The Independent, September 1, 2015: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/festivals/burning-man-from-far-out-freak-fest-to-corporate-schmoozing-event-10481946.html.
8. Digital Detox, “Corporate Offerings”: http://digitaldetox.org/corporate-2/.
9. Richard W. Hibler, Happiness Through Tranquility: The School of Epicurus (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984), 38.
10. Epicurus, “Principal Doctrines, XIV,” in The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia, trans. and ed. Brad Inwood and L. P. Gerson (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1994), 33.
11. Epicurus, “Vatican Sayings, LXXXI,” Epicurus: The Extant Remains, trans. Cyril Bailey (Oxford University Press, 1926), 119.
12. Hibler, 49.
13. Houriet, Robert, Getting Back Together (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1971), xix.
14. Ibid., xiii.
15. Peter Rabbit, Drop City (New York: Olympia, 1971), ii.
16. Houriet, xxxiv.
17. Ibid, 38.
18. Michael Weiss, Living Together: A Year in the Life of a City Commune (New York: McGraw Hill, 1974), 94.
19. Ibid.
20. Stephen Diamond, What the Trees Said: Life on a New Age Farm (New York: Delacorte Press, 1971), 30.
21. Weiss, 173.
22. Houriet, 14.
23. Ibid., xxxiv.
24. Weiss, 9.
25. Ibid.
26. Diamond, 17.
27. Ibid., 18.
28. Hibler, 40.
29. B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (New York: Macmillan, 1976), 279.
30. Ibid., 24.
31. Ibid., 262.
32. Ibid., 274.
33. Ibid., 111.
34. Ibid., 301.
35. Ibid., vii.
36. Ibid., xvi.
37. Peter Thiel, “The Education of a Libertarian,” Cato Unbound, April 13, 2009: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian.
38. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 222.
39. Ibid., 227.
40. Ibid., 222.
41. Houriet, 11.
42. Ibid., 13.
43. Ibid., 24.
44. Mella Robinson, “An island nation that told a libertarian ‘seasteading’ group it could build a floating city has pulled out of the deal,” Business Insider, March 14, 2018: https://www.businessinsider.com/french-polynesia-ends-agreement-with-peter-thiel-seasteading-institute-2018-3.
45. Maureen Dowd, “Peter Thiel, Trump’s Tech Pal, Explains Himself,” The New York Times, January 11, 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/fashion/peter-thiel-donald-trump-silicon-valley-technology-gawker.html.
46. Arendt, 227.
47. Susan X Day, “Walden Two at Fifty,” Michigan Quarterly Review XXXVIII (Spring 1999), http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.act2080.0038.211.
48. B. F. Skinner, The Shaping of a Behaviorist (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), 330 (as cited in “Walden Two at Fifty”).
49. Brian Dillon, “Poetry of Metal,” The Guardian, July 24, 2009: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/25/vladimir-tatlins-tower-st-petersburg.
50. Hans-Joachim Müller, Harald Szeemann: Exhibition Maker (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2006), 40.
51. Ibid., 83.
52. Ibid., 55.
53. Weiss, 176.
54. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (New York: Harper & Row, 1974), 78.
55. Charles Kingsley, The Hermits (London: Macmillan, 1913), 24.
56. Edward Rice, the Man in the Sycamore Tree: The Good Times and Hard Life of Thomas Merton (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 1985), 31.
57. Ibid., 48.
58. Robert Giroux, “Thomas Merton’s Durable Mountain,” The New York Times, October 11, 1998: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/11/bookend/bookend.html?module=inline.
59. Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968), 156.
60. Thomas Merton, Contemplation in a World of Action (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), 149.
61. William Deresiewicz, “Solitude and Leadership,” The American Scholar, March 1, 2010: https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/.
Chapter 3
1. Pump House Gallery, “Pilvi Takala—The Trainee”: https://pumphousegallery.org.uk/posts/the-trainee.
2. Christy Lange, “In Focus: Pilvi Takala,” Frieze, May 1, 2012: https://frieze.com/article/focus-pilvi-takala.
3. Ibid.
4. Pumphouse Gallery, “Pilvi Takala—The Trainee.”
5. Alan Duke, “New clues in planking origins mystery,” CNN, July 14, 2011: http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/07/13/planking.roots/.
6. Luis E. Navia, Diogenes of Sinope: The Man in the Tub (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998), 122.
7. Thomas McEvilley, “Diogenes of Sinope (c. 410–c. 320 B.C.): Selected Performance Pieces,” Artforum 21, March 1983, 59.
8. Navia, 61.
9. McEvilley, 58.
10. Navia, 48.
11. Ibid, 23.
12. McEvilley, 58–59.
13. Navia, 110.
14. Anthony K. Jensen, “Nietzsche’s Unpublished Fragments on Ancient Cynicism: The First Night of Diogenes,” in Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, ed. Paul Bishop (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004), 182.
15. The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, ed. R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), vii.
16. Navia, 65.
17. Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street,” Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales (UK: Oxford University Press, 2009), 28.
18. Ibid., 31.
19. Alexander Cooke, “Resistance, potentiality and the law: Deleuze and Agamben on ‘Bartleby,’ in Agamben and Law, ed. Thanos Zartaloudis (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016), 319.
20. Cooke, 319.
21. Melville, 23.
22. Margaret Y. Henry, “Cicero’s Treatment of the Free Will Problem,” Transactions and Proc
eedings of the American Philological Association 58 (1927), 34.
23. Ibid.
24. Navia, 63.
25. Carol Becker, “Stilling the World,” in Out of Now: the Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh, ed. Adrian Heathfield (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2015), 367.
26. Mary Jane Jacobs and Jacquelyn Bass, Tehching Hsieh: An Interview, streaming video, 2012: https://www.kanopy.com/wayf/video/tehching-hsieh-interview
27. Becker, 367.
28. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Volume 1 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1897), 143.
29. Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (London: The Simple Life Press, 1903), 19.
30. Ibid., 33.
31. Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, 12.
32. David F. Selvin, A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1996), 39.
33. Mike Quin, The Big Strike (New York: International Publishers, 1979), 39.
34. Ibid., 42.
35. Warren Hinckle, The Big Strike: A Pictorial History of the 1943 San Francisco General Strike (Virginia City, NV: Silver Dollar Books, 1985), 41.
36. Quin, 50.
37. Ibid., 48.
38. Selvin, 15.
39. Tillie Olsen, “The Strike,” Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930–1940, ed. Charlotte Nekola and Paula Rabinowitz (New Yoek City University of New York: The Feminist Press, 1987), 250.
40. William T. Martin Riches, The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 43.
41. Jeanne Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Boston: Beacon Press, 2015), 155.
42. Navia, 23.
43. Eugene E. Pfaff, Jr., Keep on Walkin’, Keep on Talkin’: An Oral History of the Greensboro Civil Rights Movememnt (Greensboro, NC: Tudor, 2011), 178.
44. Ibid, 108.
45. Stu Schmill, “Policies, Principles and Protests,” MIT Admissions, February 22, 2018: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/policies-principles-and-protests/.
46. Selvin, 21.
47. Ibid., 35.
48. Jacob S. Hacker, The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream (UK: Oxford University Press, 2008), 66.
49. Ibid, 66.
50. Jacob S. Hacker, “Worked Over and Overworked,” The New York Times, April 20, 2008: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/business/20workexcerpt.html.
51. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2001), 106.
52. Steven Greenhouse, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), 13.
53. Talia Jane, Twitter post, September 16, 2018: https://twitter.com/itsa_talia/status/1041112149446348802.
54. Tiger Sun, “Duck Syndrome and a Culture of Misery,” Stanford Daily, January 31, 2018: https://www.stanforddaily.com/2018/01/31/duck-syndrome-and-a-culture-of-misery/.
55. Paris Martineau, “The Future of College Is Facebook Meme Groups,” New York Magazine, July 10, 2017: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/martin-shkreli-teens-and-college-facebook-meme-groups.html.
56. Brandon Walker, “Non CS reaccs only,” Facebook post in Stanford Memes for Edgy Trees, July 2, 2018: https://www.facebook.com/groups/StanfordMemes/permalink/2299623930064291/.
57. Martin Altenburg, “Oldie but a goodie,” Facebook post in Stanford Memes for Edgy Trees, August 28, 2018: https://www.facebook.com/groups/StanfordMemes/permalink/2405197476173602/.
58. Julie Liu, “when you get your summer internship and celebrate committing yourself to being yet another cog in the vast capitalist machine,” Facebook post in UC Berkeley Memes for Edgy Teens, June 16, 2018: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UCBMFET/permalink/2135605103384176/.
59. Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials (New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2017), 83.
60. Ibid., 86.
61. Laura Portwood-Stacer, “Media refusal and conspicuous non-consumption: The performative and political dimensions of the Facebook abstention,” New Media & Society 15, no. 7 (December 2012): 1054.
62. Grafton Tanner, “Digital Detox: Big Tech’s Phony Crisis of Conscience,” Los Angeles Review of Books, August, 9. 2018: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/digital-detox-big-techs-phony-crisis-of-conscience/#!.
63. Navia, 141.
64. Ibid., 125. Navia notes that the language for “sea of illusion” also translates to “wine-colored sea of fog,” yet another image of typhos.
65. Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (London: Verso Books, 2013), 17.
66. Jacobs and Bass, Tehching Hsieh: An Interview.
Chapter 4
1. John Cage, “Four Statements on the Dance,” in Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 93.
2. Lawrence Weschler, True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 6.
3. Ibid., 10.
4. Ibid.
5. David Hockney and Lawrence Weschler, Cameraworks (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1984), 17.
6. Weschler, 33.
7. David Hockney, That’s the Way I See It (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993), 112.
8. David Hockney and Marco Livingstone, David Hockney: My Yorkshire (London: Enitharmon Editions, 2011), 60.
9. Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Touchstone, 1996), 109.
10. Ibid., 58.
11. Ibid., 58–59.
12. Emily Dickinson, “359 - A bird came down the walk,” The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition, ed. R. W. Franklin (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1998), 383–384.
13. Arthur C. Danto, Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005), 191.
14. “A neuroscientist has just developed an app that, after repeated use, makes you see farther. Absolutely astonishing and 100% real,” The New Reddit Journal of Science, 2014: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1y9m6w/a_neuroscientist_has_just_developed_an_app_that/.
15. Derisan, “The Dumbest,” Review of ULTIMEYES in the App Store, March 24, 2017.
16. Arien Mack and Irvin Rock, Inattentional Blindness (UK: Oxford University Press, 1998), 66.
17. Ibid., 71.
18. Jessica Nordell, “Is This How Discrimination Ends?” The Atlantic, May 7, 2017: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/unconscious-bias-training/525405/.
19. William James, Psychology (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890), 227.
20. Ibid., 453.
21. Ibid.
22. James Williams, “Why It’s OK to Block Ads,” Practical Ethics, October 16, 2015: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-block-ads/.
23. Devangi Vivrekar, “Persuasive Design Techniques in the Attention Economy: User Awareness, Theory, and Ethics,” master’s thesis, Stanford University, 2018, 17.
24. Ibid., 68.
25. Ibid., 46.
26. Ibid., 48.
27. William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (New York: Dover, 1918), 403.
28. The Biosphere and the Bioregion: Essential Writings of Peter Berg, ed. Cheryll Glotfelty and Eve Quesnel (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2014), xx.
Chapter 5
1. Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2010), 17.
2. David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009), 79.
3. Ibid., 94.
4. Louis Althusser, Philosophy of the Encounter—Later Writings, 1978–1987, ed. François Matheron and Oliver Corpet, trans. G. M. Goshgarian (London: Verso Books, 2006), 185.
5. Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster (New Yor
k: Penguin, 2010), 155.
6. Ibid., 32.
7. Sarah Schulman, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), 30.
8. Alan Watts, Ego (Millbrae, CA: Celestial Arts, 1975), 15.
9. Michael Pollan, “My Adventures with the Trip Doctors,” The New York Times, May 15, 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/15/magazine/health-issue-my-adventures-with-hallucinogenic-drugs-medicine.html.
10. Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch, The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991), 9.
11. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2013), 208.
12. Ibid., 209.
13. Abram, 71.
14. Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America, ed. Gloria Bird and Joy Harjo (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997), 24.
15. Kimmerer, 162.
16. Chris J. Cuomo, Feminism and Ecological Communities: An Ethic of Flourishing (London: Routledge, 1998), 106.
17. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: Essays on Conservation from Round River (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 189–90.
18. Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 2007), 120.
19. Ibid., 111.
20. Schulman, 36.
21. Ibid., 33.
Chapter 6
1. Henry David Thoreau, “Walking,” The Atlantic, June 1862: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1862/06/walking/304674/.
2. Virginia Morell, “Woodpeckers Partner with Fungi to Build Homes,” Science, March 22, 2016: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/woodpeckers-partner-fungi-build-homes.
3. Oliveros, Deep Listening, xxv.
4. Alice E. Marwick and danah boyd, “I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience,” New Media and Society 13 (1).
5. Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior (UK: Oxford University Press, 1985), 17.
6. Ibid., 18.
7. Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (Boston: Beacon Press, 2010), 32–55.