Saving Time Discovering A Life Beyond The Clock Jenny Odell by Jenny Odell B0B3HY8HGW instant download after payment.

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From the author of How to Do Nothing comes a “paradigm-destroying new book . . . about the various problems that swirl out from dominant conceptions of ‘time’” (The New York Times Editors’ Choice).

“Saving Time’s real triumph lies in her road map for experiencing time outside the capitalist clock. . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”—Esquire

In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from the “attention economy” to spend time in quiet contemplation. But what if you don’t have time to spend?

In order to answer this seemingly simple question, Odell took a deep dive into the fundamental structure of our society & found that the clock we live by was built for profit, not people. This is why our lives, even in leisure, have come to seem like a series of moments to be bought, sold, & processed ever more efficiently. Odell shows us how our painful relationship to time is inextricably connected not only to persisting social inequities but to the climate crisis, existential dread, & a lethal fatalism.

This dazzling, subversive, & deeply hopeful book offers us different ways to experience time—inspired by pre-industrial cultures, ecological cues, & geological timescales—that can bring within reach a more humane, responsive way of living. As planet-bound animals, we live inside shortening & lengthening days alongside gardens growing, birds migrating, & cliffs eroding; the stretchy quality of waiting & desire; the way the present may suddenly feel marbled with childhood memory; the slow but sure procession of a pregnancy; the time it takes to heal from injuries. 

Odell urges us to become stewards of these different rhythms of life in which time is not reducible to standardized units & instead forms the very medium of possibility.

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Jenny Odell is a multidisciplinary artist & author.