



Article number: | 9789063695781 |
Availability: | In stock |
Received my copy yesterday and read it in one sitting. Absolute page turner.
What a ride through creative work today. Critical, insightful, though-provoking. Finally I feel enlivened to turn the dullness into something more explosive.
Highly recommend!
This book could not be more timely.
A funny, critical reminder about the importance of disobedience in the age of 'data'.
I’ve long awaited Jess’ book having followed her writing for years. FINALLY a non-digital approach to creative work! After the pandemic, we need this thinking now more ever. Her voice is a balm for these times.
Received my copy yesterday and read it in one sitting. Absolute page turner.
What a ride through creative work today. Critical, insightful, though-provoking. Finally I feel enlivened to turn the dullness into something more explosive.
Highly recommend!
This book could not be more timely.
A funny, critical reminder about the importance of disobedience in the age of 'data'.
I’ve long awaited Jess’ book having followed her writing for years. FINALLY a non-digital approach to creative work! After the pandemic, we need this thinking now more ever. Her voice is a balm for these times.
Content |
Offline Matters is a handbook of radical strategies for creative workers. The guide blows open the true state of today’s creative work where digital solutions are doctrine, overwork culture results in burnouts and ideas churn out into depressing marketing noise. Part of the vanguard of young minds exposing the insides of contemporary workplaces, Jess Henderson is a peerless voice of the many. Representing the growing body of precarious creative workers “saying what nobody else is saying,” Henderson addresses an array of issues from a stance of mutual aid and solidarity. A wake-up call for the digital age, Offline Matters is pro-flourishing rather than anti-technology. Take this countercultural ride of togetherness through an offline-first approach to creative work. From ideas that unlearn the limiting habits of most workplaces, to insider advice on avoiding clichés and reducing digital overload, this book offers practical thoughts for a creative life that questions pervasive productivity mandates. Sharp, intelligent and subversive, this book is an essential resource for any creative professional. |
Author |
Jess Henderson (pseud.) is a writer, theorist and creative strategist. Aged just 26, in 2017 they founded Outsider – an insider-activist platform within the creative industries. Beginning as a subversive email newsletter, Outsider has grown to garner a cult-following around the world with their anonymous writings, research, publications, experimental workshops and offline-only events. Henderson is a fellow of the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, and speaks about offline creativity around the world – including at NYCxDesign week, Parson’s Strategic Design Conference, the DuPho Awards and Us by Night Festival. |
Press |
"This document feels like the so much needed wake-up-call, both confronting and insightful, inspiring and resonating." – AnotherSomething "This sharp and intelligent book is an essential tool for any creative professional." – FNV magazine |
Quote |
"Offline Matters is a much needed take-down of the whole 'cult of creativity' from the inside. This rattle gun attack on the perniciousness of the creative digital work will leave you aghast and amused in equal measure." – Oli Mould, author of Against Creativity ... away from the confines of our screens. Scroll down for the Offline Matters Book + Cards combination package: € 25 for both! |
Specs |
ISBN: 978 90 6369 468 5 |