Why It's OK to Be a Slacker - 9780367723651

Why It's OK to Be a SlackerAuthor(s): Alison Suen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367723651, 978-0367723651\nSynopsis\n\""Stop slacking off!\""\n\nYour parents may have said this to you when you were deep into a video-gaming marathon. Or maybe your roommate said it to you when you were lounging on the couch scrolling through Instagram. You may have even said it to yourself on days you did nothing. But what is so bad about slacking? Could it be that theres nothing bad about not making yourself useful?\n\nAgainst our hyper-productivity culture, Alison Suen critically interrogates our disapproval of slackersindividuals who do the bare minimum just to get by. She offers a taxonomy of slackers, analyzes common objections to slacking, and argues that each of these objections either fails or carries problematic assumptions. But while this book defends slacking, it does not promote the slacker lifestyle as the key to some.