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 “PILLOW” SETLIST:

  1. “How Will You Be Useless to Capitalism Today?” - Bronte Velez, Tricia Hersey

  2. Some Kind of Ghoul (feat. Bethany Conerly) - Joe Zempel

  3. “Rest Life” Meditation Audio - Tricia Hersey

  4. "Challenging Capitalistic Exploitation: A Black Feminist/Womanist Commentary on Work and Self-Care" - Caldera

  5. “Preface.” Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto - Tricia Hersey (physical copy available through JMU Libraries)

  6. Jenny Odell on her book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

  7. Pink + White - Frank Ocean

  8. If You Get Everything Done - Phil Kaye

  9. “On Work.” The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran pp. 30-34

  10. Since You’ve Asked - birocratic

* 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.

  • Isn’t it interesting how The Prophet discusses labor outside of the transcapitalist context?

  • birocratic is a chillhop artist, who I believe, along with nujabes, laid the groundwork for lo-fi! I found it interesting to view lo-fi and 2015 to 2018 as a cultural moment of slowness. Its aesthetics and sonics were also quickly appropriated for productivity.