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Hanging Out

The Radical Power of Killing Time

By: Sheila Liming

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Paperback | 12 April 2023

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256 Pages

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A smart, funny manifesto about the simple art of hanging out and how our collective social experiences can be transformed into acts of resistance and solidarity, from a brilliant young feminist critic

'Hanging out is about daring to do nothing much and, even more than that, about daring to do it in the company of others.'

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 an intelligent 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.

For fans of Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing- Resisting the Attention Economy.

About the Author

Sheila Liming is the author of Office and What a Library Means to a Woman, and her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney's, Lapham's Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Point, among others. She lives, teaches, and plays the accordion in Burlington, Vermont. Hanging Out- The Radical Power of Killing Time is her latest book.

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