{"product_id":"9781478029601","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Doing Nothing by James Currie","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 03\/02\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDoing Nothing is a book about doing nothing in a system where there is always something pressing that ought to be done. Not the productive unstructured time of self-help books, but the aimless and ineffective doing nothing of procrastination, resignation, and melancholia. James Currie pursues these themes across a wide terrain of experiences, materials, and examples from the personal, local, and anecdotal, through to the existential, cosmological, and apocalyptic-reflecting, among other things, on the COVID pandemic, the lives of teenagers, Lars Van Trier's 2011 film Melancholia, work, play, and politics. Doing Nothing offers a lived-in embrace of queer states of being that stand against liveliness and the mournful feelings of entrapment and shame that exist alongside the unexpected opportunities such situations afford. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368903127413,"sku":"9781478029601","price":72.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781478029601.jpg?v=1763551318","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781478029601","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}