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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.

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• Full title: Doing Nothing
• Author: James Currie
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 104
• EAN: 9781478029601
• ISBN: 1478029609
• ID: 49233626
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Weight: 572 g
• Date of publishing: 03. February 2026

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