One reason to fight for the right to hang out, then, begins with an awareness of the potential that digital technologies and devices possess to obscure the realities of place. This is an idea that the artist and writer Jenny Odell develops in her book How to Do Nothing. In it, Odell investigates the merits of what she calls “placefulness,” which stands opposed to “the placelessness of an optimized life spent online.”[4] Through an extension of Odell’s observations, it becomes possible to see placelessness as a primary means by which digital technology seeks to convert all time into work time. Rebecca Solnit was observing that very conversion more than twenty years ago, back in 2000, when she wrote, “The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time and place for production and minimize the unstructured traveled time in between.” In her book Wanderlust, Solnit links the erosion of time spent doing one of the most basic of human activities, walking, to conditions of “false urgency” that preach that “travel is less important than arrival.”[5] The same, I think, is true of hanging out, which, like walking, is so basic a pursuit that it is liable to get taken for granted.