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Plain Life

On thinking, feeling and deciding

Author: Antonia Pont  

Plain Life
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Antonia Pont's Plain Life presents a series of essays that think through central ideas of happiness, rest and relaxation, talking and allowing for silence, community and leadership.

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Antonia Pont's Plain Life presents a series of essays that think through central ideas of happiness, rest and relaxation, talking and allowing for silence, community and leadership.

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These days, it's easy to get the impression that people are really very anxious. Who? you ask. Well, people you hear about. People who tell you they are. Friends. Lovers. Acquaintances. Colleagues. The Youth. The term is around and people are applying it to themselves, or having it applied to them, willy-nilly.

What would it mean to be able to live a plain life? Would a plain life just be an unambitious one a drab or routine life, without colour, variation, unknowing or luck? Or would a plain life be one in which we'd fret slightly less, suspect ourselves less, and thus listen to ourselves and others in new ways? We may not need to do more and be more in the quiet spaces already within us, lurking in the interstices of our days and conversations, there are ways and choreographies to nurture a plainer, saner, odder, less reactive and therefore less terrifying life.

In Plain Life, Antonia Pont questions our thinking about capacities, virtue, envy, wanting, love and kindness suggesting that it might be fine, more than enough, indeed so much, to live a plain life.

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About the Author

Antonia Pont is Associate Professor in Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin University, Australia. She publishes poetry, fiction and essays as well as theoretical work across writing, literature, philosophy and the creative arts. Her research is concerned with time, habit, ethical capacity, thought, movement and transformation. She is the author of The Memory Library (Spineless Wonders, 2024), A Philosophy of Practising (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and a co-author of Practising with Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Her collection of poetry You Will Not Know in Advance What You'll Feel was published in 2019. She is the founder of Vijnana Yoga Australia (2009-), where she continues to practise, teach and lead retreats. Her essays have an international following, and have appeared in Lit Hub, The Lifted Brow, Antithesis, Meanjin and Overland.

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Publisher
NewSouth Publishing
Published
1st August 2025
Pages
288
ISBN
9781761170164

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