Welcome to OCP x Imagining America Open Forum 4 at JMU, “Imagining Rest” :)

Instead of making you sift through resources, we’ve randomized them into two audio files. Sit back, relax, and grab a snack or hot drink!

DECEMBER AUDIO “BLANKET” SETLIST:

  1. “The Utopia of Degrowth.” Degrowth - Giorgos Kallis

  2. Tenets of the Nap Ministry - Tricia Hersey

  3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Regina Spektor version

  4. From “harbor lp” - tomppabeats

    1. goodmorningme

    2. Darling

    3. Puffin’

    4. Don’t Leave Me This Way

    5. Goodnight - Interlude

  5. “Energy Regimes” - Michael Niblett

  6. “The Lamplighter.” The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Rachel Portman, Nicholas Wright

  7. In a Week - Hozier feat. Karen Cowley

  8. Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price, online excerpt

  9. Empty, Become Wind - Joe Zempel feat. Karen Cowley

  10. “Introduction.” Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto - Tricia Hersey (available as a physical copy in JMU libraries)

Also see:

“Rest as a Practice of Resistance and Freedom” - LaShawn Routé Chatmon

* Some notes from Jana:

  • Form your own conclusions on the presented material! By no means do we intend to ask you to accept anything wholesale :)

  • Please do support Hersey by reading her book and visiting her site! I do not mean to speak for her in this reading.

  • Included Regina Spektor’s cover of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” It was the credits song of Laika Studio’s Kubo and the Two Strings. I deeply admire their slow and attentive creative praxis, and I believe the way they approach time and care shows through in their song selection here.

  • Before lo-fi girl, there was Harbor LP. The genre grew with tomppabeats. I wonder: when 3-hour-long lo-fi mixes started appearing on YouTube, at what point did they become tools for productivity?