THE SECRET WORLD OF DOING NOTHING
Book ID/图书代码： 13520010B41662
English Summary/英文概要： In this insightful and pathbreaking reflection on “doing nothing,” Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren take us on a fascinating tour of what is happening when, to all appearances, absolutely nothing is happening. Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn from literature, published ethnographies, and firsthand research, they probe the unobserved moments in our daily lives—waiting for a bus, daydreaming by the window, performing a routine task—and illuminate these “empty” times as full of significance. Creative, insightful, and profound, The Secret World of Doing Nothing leads us to rethink the ordinary and find meaning in today’s hypermodern reality.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在这个对“无所事事”具有远见和开拓性的思考中，比利•汉深和奥珐•洛夫格伦带领我们踏上一次奇妙之旅：从外表看什麽也没发生的时候到底发生了什麽。从文学、已出版的民族志和第一手资料获取的广泛例子中，他们探索了日常生活中探索观测不到的时刻——比如等待公交车，望着窗口做白日梦，执行例行任务——并阐明这些“放空“的时间其实充满了意义。有创意、有远见而又深刻《无所事事的秘密世界》引导我们重新思考普通事物，在现今高度现在的现实中发现其中的意义。(兼职翻译-JDM)
Awards/获奖情况：“[The authors] inspire readers to assess the potential mental value associated with commuting, daydreaming, completing routines, performing rituals, and more.”---Foreword This Week
"This is one of those rare books that causes you to rethink all your previous understandings of both time and space, to pay attention to what you have hitherto ignored or belittled. Full of fascinating detail, Ehn and Lofgren’s work opens up a whole new field of inquiry."---John Gillis, author of Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World
"This is a beautifully written and elegant book, deeply thoughtful but accessible to anyone. The Secret World of Doing Nothing is an essential field guide for understanding daily life; a delightful way to find out what is going on in the heads of people waiting, standing in lines, daydreaming and seemingly doing nothing. Ehn and Lofgren open a door into a hitherto hidden world in the mundane details of daily life; they uncover a trove of valuable insight into contemporary society, emotions, and morality. Who would think that looking at nothing could be so enlightening?"---Richard R. Wilk, Indiana University
"Focusing on three seemingly mundane activities—waiting, routines, and daydreaming—Ehn and Lofgren lead us into a rich imaginative world that lies within each of these everyday practices. Far from being trivial, we learn that these practices provide a revealing window into the social constructions of norms and values and moral debates about order and disorder. They provide a whole new level of insight into the collective nature of individual mental meanderings and the human desire to escape boredom and structures of control through the imagination."---Katrina Moore, University of New South Wales
About the Author/作者介绍： 比利•汉深是默奥大学文化与媒体研究学教授，奥珐•洛夫格伦是隆德大学民族学教授，两位都现居瑞典。洛夫格伦也是是《假日：度假的历史》(加州大学出版社出版)的作者。 Billy Ehn is a Professor in the Department of Culture and Media Studies at Umea University and Orvar Löfgren is Professor of Ethnology at the University of Lund, both in Sweden. Löfgren is the author of On Holiday: A History of Vacationing (UC Press).
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