ABSTRACT
The final chapter examines ways of not performing movement, motion and mobility. By acts of commission, people may refuse to move, either at all or at a particularly fast pace. Doing nothing can be a symbolic marker of privilege and status, as we see through the historical example of upper class idleness. Stillness may be practised as a deliberate, political act of cultural resistance, as illustrated by adherents of the Slow Movement, those living off grid or refusing to comply with pharmaceutical treatments. Non-doing occurs by acts of omission when movement is limited and mobility curtailed. We see this dramatically through stories of imprisonment and torturous confinement, but also at the more quotidian and mundane level of procrastination and decision-making avoidance. The chapter concludes with some remarks about the personal significance of nothing. In a call to negative responsibility, readers are invited to consider all the things that they have not done, had or become in their lives, and find meaning in these lost experiences.
