Aimlessness

by Tom Lutz

Book Overview

Our culture values striving, purpose, achievement, and accumulation. This book asks us to get sidetracked along the way. It praises aimlessness as a source of creativity and an alternative to the demand for linear, efficient, instrumentalist thinking and productivity.

Aimlessness collects ideas and stories from around the world that value indirection, wandering, getting lost, waiting, meandering, lingering, sitting, laying about,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023119935X
• ISBN13: 9780231199353
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.1"