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Aimlessness
Series: No Limits
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Ideal for readers interested in philosophy, cultural critique, and the celebration of creativity through non-linear thinking. Suitable for those who enjoy reflective essays and appreciate open-ended explorations of human experience beyond productivity and efficiency.
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.
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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: No Limits
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A breeze to read, this book is a treat for anyone who enjoys both mindful and mindless wandering. Los Angeles Review of Books calls it engaging and accessible, while Mindful praises it as a lovely little book. Critics appreciate Lutz's widespread and masterful discussion of literature and philosophy, with one reviewer celebrating his effortless, flâneur-like style that evokes sudden pleasures in ideas and an appreciation for the unexpected.
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ISBN: 9780231199353
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 January 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 184
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About the Author
Tom Lutz is the founding editor and publisher of the Los Angeles Review of Books and Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at University of California at Riverside. His many books include Born Slippy: A Novel (2020) and Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums (2008), which won the American Book Award.
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