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Paperback. Condición: New. Loneliness is an epidemic; it feels harder than ever to connect with others meaningfully. What can we do to remedy this? Sheila Liming has the answer: we need to hang out more.With the introduction of AI and constant Zoom meetings, our lives have become more fractured, digital and chaotic. Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time shows us what we have lost to the frenetic pace of digital life and how to get it back.Combining personal narrative with pungent analyses of books, movies, and TV shows, Sheila Liming shows us how the new social landscape deadens our connections with others ? connections that are vital to both self-care and to a vibrant community. Whether drinking with strangers in a distant city or jamming with musician friends in an abandoned Pittsburgh row house, Liming demonstrates that unstructured social time is the key to a freer, happier sense of self.Hanging Out shows how simple acts of casual connection are the glue that binds us together, and how community is the antidote to the disconnection and isolation that dominates contemporary life.Read more Continue reading Read less REVIEW'From sharing a cuppa to lazing in the park, is the key to happiness doing everyday activities with pals? Liming proposes hanging out as a balm that forges connection and meaning.' Guardian 'Hide your phone, stop hustling for a second, and read this passionate argument for the importance of unstructured pre-digital hang.' People Magazine'The book conceives of hanging out as a way to reclaim time as something other than a raw ingredient to be converted into productivity.' --The New York Times"[Hanging Out] encourages readers to do more of it in real life.Liming's observational and storytelling skills shine." --Publishers Weekly ABOUT THE AUTHORSheila Liming is an associate professor at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, and the author of two previous books, What a Library Means to a Woman and Office. She has been featured in the New York Times Arts and Leisure section as well in periodicals ranging from People magazine to Bookforum and Slate. She has been a guest on the Ezra Klein show and on numerous NPR programs, as well as on KCBS San Francisco and WDET Detroit. Her essays have appeared in venues like The Atlantic, McSweeney's, Lapham's Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, and The Point, among others. Hanging Out was the answer to a Jeopardy question on May 16, 2023. EXCERPT. © REPRINTED BY PERMISSION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.IntroductionI was looking at a field of sunflowers. They were dead-black, desiccated, their honeycombed faces having been pecked or otherwise stripped of their former multitudes of seeds. They looked stranded to me, caught between the season of their flourishing and the next one, the one that would see them all plowed under."Nothing gold can stay," I commented with a quick nudge to my partner, Dave, who was beside me in the passenger seat.We were on our way to Sherry and Virgil's house and ta.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Almost every day it seems that our world becomes more fractured, more digital, and more chaotic. Sheila Liming has the answer: we need to hang out more. Starting with the assumption that play is to children as hanging out is to adult, Liming makes a brilliant case for the necessity of unstructured social time as a key element of our cultural vitality. The book asks questions like what is hanging out? why is it important? why do we do it? how do we do it? and examines the various ways we hang out - in groups, online, at parties, at work. Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time makes a smart and funny case for the importance of this most casual of social structures, and shows us how just getting together can be a potent act of resistance all on its own. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Almost every day it seems that our world becomes more fractured, more digital, and more chaotic. Sheila Liming has the answer: we need to hang out more. Starting with the assumption that play is to children as hanging out is to adult, Liming makes a brilliant case for the necessity of unstructured social time as a key element of our cultural vitality. The book asks questions like what is hanging out? why is it important? why do we do it? how do we do it? and examines the various ways we hang out - in groups, online, at parties, at work. Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time makes a smart and funny case for the importance of this most casual of social structures, and shows us how just getting together can be a potent act of resistance all on its own. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condición: New. Sheila Liming is an associate professor at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, and the author of two previous books, What a Library Means to a Woman and Office. She has been featured in the New York Times Arts &amp Leisure.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'Hide your phone, stop hustling for a second, and read this passionate argument for the importance of unstructured pre-digital hang.' People Loneliness is an epidemic; it feels harder than ever to connect with others meaningfully. What can we do to remedy this Sheila Liming has the answer: we need to hang out more.With the introduction of AI and constant Zoom meetings, our lives have become more fractured, digital and chaotic. Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time shows us what we have lost to the frenetic pace of digital life and how to get it back.Combining personal narrative with pungent analyses of books, movies, and TV shows, Sheila Liming shows us how the new social landscape deadens our connections with others connections that are vital to both self-care and to a vibrant community. Whether drinking with strangers in a distant city or jamming with musician friends in an abandoned Pittsburgh row house, Liming demonstrates that unstructured social time is the key to a freer, happier sense of self.Hanging Out shows how simple acts of casual connection are the glue that binds us together, and how community is the antidote to the disconnection and isolation that dominates contemporary life.'The book conceives of hanging out as a way to reclaim time as something other than a raw ingredient to be converted into productivity.' New York Times Rich with illuminating stories. Slate'We could all use more of that blissfully unstructured social time, posits Sheila Liming in the well-considered series of arguments found in Hanging Out.' Reader's Digest'Opens with a simple and expansive account of what hanging out is Liming dedicates much of the book to stories from her past. She has lived an interesting life, and she tells these stories well. Washington Post'Sharp and vivid writing a layered exploration of social dynamics that contains some textured literary criticism. Bookforum'More books about hanging out, less about productivity please. Sheila Liming sees the gap in our thinking about time, and the true worth in spending it in an unstructured fashion with members of our community. LitHub.

Paperback. Condición: New. Loneliness is an epidemic; it feels harder than ever to connect with others meaningfully. What can we do to remedy this? Sheila Liming has the answer: we need to hang out more.With the introduction of AI and constant Zoom meetings, our lives have become more fractured, digital and chaotic. Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time shows us what we have lost to the frenetic pace of digital life and how to get it back.Combining personal narrative with pungent analyses of books, movies, and TV shows, Sheila Liming shows us how the new social landscape deadens our connections with others ? connections that are vital to both self-care and to a vibrant community. Whether drinking with strangers in a distant city or jamming with musician friends in an abandoned Pittsburgh row house, Liming demonstrates that unstructured social time is the key to a freer, happier sense of self.Hanging Out shows how simple acts of casual connection are the glue that binds us together, and how community is the antidote to the disconnection and isolation that dominates contemporary life.Read more Continue reading Read less REVIEW'From sharing a cuppa to lazing in the park, is the key to happiness doing everyday activities with pals? Liming proposes hanging out as a balm that forges connection and meaning.' Guardian 'Hide your phone, stop hustling for a second, and read this passionate argument for the importance of unstructured pre-digital hang.' People Magazine'The book conceives of hanging out as a way to reclaim time as something other than a raw ingredient to be converted into productivity.' --The New York Times"[Hanging Out] encourages readers to do more of it in real life.Liming's observational and storytelling skills shine." --Publishers Weekly ABOUT THE AUTHORSheila Liming is an associate professor at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, and the author of two previous books, What a Library Means to a Woman and Office. She has been featured in the New York Times Arts and Leisure section as well in periodicals ranging from People magazine to Bookforum and Slate. She has been a guest on the Ezra Klein show and on numerous NPR programs, as well as on KCBS San Francisco and WDET Detroit. Her essays have appeared in venues like The Atlantic, McSweeney's, Lapham's Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, and The Point, among others. Hanging Out was the answer to a Jeopardy question on May 16, 2023. EXCERPT. © REPRINTED BY PERMISSION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.IntroductionI was looking at a field of sunflowers. They were dead-black, desiccated, their honeycombed faces having been pecked or otherwise stripped of their former multitudes of seeds. They looked stranded to me, caught between the season of their flourishing and the next one, the one that would see them all plowed under."Nothing gold can stay," I commented with a quick nudge to my partner, Dave, who was beside me in the passenger seat.We were on our way to Sherry and Virgil's house and ta.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Hanging Out | Sheila Liming | Taschenbuch | XXII | Englisch | 2024 | Melville House Publishing | EAN 9781685890780 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, 22083 Hamburg, gpsr[at]petersen-buchimport[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.