Once, seeing a child drinking from his hands, Diogenes threw away his cup and said, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living." Another time, he loudly admired a mouse for its economy of living.
[Rather than fleeing to the mountains or killing himself, he lived in the midst of a hypocritic society as the embodiment of refusal.]
[When life both inside and outside of society doesn't make sense, create the 'third space' as an alternate frame of reference, a non-answer.]
[In Bartleby's repetitions of 'I would prefer not to', there is no reason given, no reason given for why there is not reason given, and so on.]
[As fewer people find themselves with the margin of privilege to switch off from the attention economy, attention itself might be the last resource we can control.]