How to Disappear
Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
Akiko Busch looks at invisibility in nature, art and science as a calmer way to live in a watched world.
Akiko Busch’s 2019 book, subtitled Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency, starts from a simple observation. In networked, image-saturated lives we are pushed to reveal, share and self-promote, often to profit technology companies. A lifelong observer of the natural world, Busch explores a widespread wish for a less scrutinized way of life, drawing on her own family, remote places from the Cayman Islands to Iceland, and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Jenny Offill loved it for its gentle grace and sly wit.
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Jenny Offill
I loved Akiko Busch's brilliant Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency. It suggests with gentle grace and sly wit the virtues of being inconspicuous, unseen, or unheralded in this over-documented age.
Article · December 2019
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