Jenny Odell — On AI
This page lists every Orange Pill Wiki entry hyperlinked from Jenny Odell — On AI. 14 entries total. Each is a deeper-dive on a person, concept, work, event, or technology that the book treats as a stepping stone for thinking through the AI revolution. Click any card to open the entry; in each entry, words colored in orange link to other Orange Pill Wiki entries, while orange-underlined words with the Wikipedia mark link to Wikipedia.
Bioregionalism (Odell)
Odell's insistence on the primacy of embodied, place-based experience — the specific watershed, ecology, and weather of where one actually lives — against the delocalized abstractions of screen-mediated work.
Cognitive Refugia
Odell's ecological term for the small, apparently idle moments within a day that serve as habitats for forms of mental activity — mind-wandering, associative connection, default mode processing — that cannot occur during focused, goal-direc…
Collective Refusal (Odell)
Odell's insistence that individual resistance to structural pressure is insufficient, and that the protections required for refusal-in-place must be extracted through collective action the way earlier labor rights were won.
Default Mode Network
The brain system that activates when attention is undirected — the neural substrate of creative incubation, self-reflection, and consolidation, systematically eliminated by continuous AI availability.
Doing Nothing (as Practice)
Odell's deliberately provocative name for an intensely active discipline — the sustained, effortful refusal to convert every moment of existence into output — that the productivity culture systematically misreads as passivity.
The Attention Economy
The economic system in which human attention is harvested, packaged, and sold to advertisers — the infrastructure that drives the algorithmic pathologies Gore calls artificial insanity.
The Bird-Watcher's Attention
Odell's model for the receptive, purposeless, responsive mode of consciousness that waits for what arrives rather than directing toward what is sought — and that AI's prompt-response architecture structurally trains out of the builder's cog…
The Capacity for Presence
Odell's name for the foundational human capacity — being here, in this specific moment, aware of the world without converting it into productive engagement — whose erosion under AI's always-available productivity is the revolution's deepest…
The Ecology of Idle Moments
Odell's framework for the temporal habitat that supports cognitive activity irreducible to focused task-work — the third space whose protection requires ecological rather than psychological thinking.
The Freedom to Not Produce
Odell's name for the unrecognized, unprotected freedom most threatened by the AI revolution — the freedom to exist without converting every moment into output, whose erosion is structural rather than coercive.
Third Space (Odell)
Odell's name for the territory of experience that is neither productive work nor passive rest — the mode of engaged, purposeless attention whose destruction by AI's always-available productivity makes the concept newly urgent.
What Cannot Be Optimized
Odell's category for the domains of human experience — trust, grief, the contemplation of beauty, genuine conversation — that are destroyed rather than improved by the attempt to make them more efficient.
