{"product_id":"doing-nothing-9781478033059","title":"Doing Nothing","description":"\u003ci\u003eDoing Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMelancholia\u003c\/i\u003e, work, play, and politics. \u003ci\u003eDoing Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Currie is a multi-arts practitioner and Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMusic and the Politics of Negation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51998185292050,"sku":"9781478033059","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_14e35abd-5a9e-42e0-aaad-753103d3643e.jpg?v=1773151254","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/doing-nothing-9781478033059","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}