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Aimlessness
- Title
- Aimlessness / Tom Lutz.
- Author
- Lutz, Tom
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-1093 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 169 pages; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "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, daydreaming, and other ways to be open to possibility, chaos, and multiplicity. Tom Lutz considers aimlessness as a fundamental human proclivity and method, one that has been vilified by modern industrial societies but celebrated by many religious traditions, philosophers, writers, and artists. He roams a circular path that snakes and forks down sideroads, traipsing through modernist art, nomadic life, slacker comedies, drugs, travel, nirvana, and oblivion. The book is structured as a recursive, disjunctive spiral of short sections, a collage of narrative, anecdotal, analytic, and lyrical passages-intended to be read aimlessly, to wind up someplace unexpected"--
- Series Statement
- No limits
- Uniform Title
- No limits (New York, N.Y.)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Informational works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-1093
- ISBN
- 9780231199346
- 0231199341
- 9780231199353
- 023119935X
- LCCN
- 2020017904
- OCLC
- 1193557941
- Author
- Lutz, Tom, author.
- Title
- Aimlessness / Tom Lutz.
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- No limitsNo limits (New York, N.Y.)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Lutz, Tom. Aimlessness. New York, New York : Columbia University Press, 2021 9780231553063 (DLC) 2020017905
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-1093