Doing Nothing

James Currie (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

104 Seiten

2026
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2960-1 (ISBN)

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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.

James Currie is a multi-arts practitioner and Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of Music and the Politics of Negation.

Preface ix
Acknowledgments
Part 1. About Me
Part 2. Cosmos
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.2.2026
Reihe/Serie	Practices
Zusatzinfo	7 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 127 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-2960-9 / 1478029609
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2960-1 / 9781478029601
Zustand	Neuware