Some people try to program productivity into their downtime, engineering their social lives for constant stimulation. But in Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time, literary scholar Sheila Liming argues that we can gain so much more from just, well, hanging out. In Liming’s eyes, hanging out happens when we refuse to be productive in any economic sense. It’s about making both the space and the time to bask in this nothingness. With references ranging from the work of philosopher Walter Benjamin to the Industrial Workers of the World to the Food Network, Liming seeks to understand when exactly we gave up our downtime and what we lost in doing so. This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Eight Buy Now Related Stories Arts & Culture Issue 49 Minor Lapses The new way of doing nothing. Arts & Culture Issue 48 Money for Nothing On collecting ephemera. Arts & Culture Issue 39 The Next Big Nothing On not quite making it. Arts & Culture Issue 51 Emily Gernild The Danish painter breathing new life into an old medium. Arts & Culture Food Issue 51 Imogen Kwok The artist takes food styling quite literally, creating accessories out of fruits and vegetables. Arts & Culture Design Issue 51 How to Make a Chair And do it on a tiny budget.
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