Saving Time
Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Published on 23. March 2023
400 pages
978-1-4735-9189-9 (ISBN)
Description
We're living on the wrong clock. Now is our moment to rethink.
In this provocative follow-up to How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell challenges our cultural obsession with productivity. Drawing on philosophy, ecology and art, Saving Time argues that time is not money - it's life itself.
Odell explores how the 'clock of capitalism' dictates our days and disconnects us from natural rhythms, proposing instead a more humane, ecological understanding of time rooted in seasons, community and care. This Sunday Times-bestselling thinker offers both critique and comfort, inviting readers to pause, breathe and imagine freer ways of living.
'To read it is ... to experience how freedom might feel' Oliver Burkeman
'Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing' Esquire
In this provocative follow-up to How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell challenges our cultural obsession with productivity. Drawing on philosophy, ecology and art, Saving Time argues that time is not money - it's life itself.
Odell explores how the 'clock of capitalism' dictates our days and disconnects us from natural rhythms, proposing instead a more humane, ecological understanding of time rooted in seasons, community and care. This Sunday Times-bestselling thinker offers both critique and comfort, inviting readers to pause, breathe and imagine freer ways of living.
'To read it is ... to experience how freedom might feel' Oliver Burkeman
'Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing' Esquire
Reviews / Votes
It is in the gap between present and future, where outcomes are not yet determined, that Jenny Odell enters with her paradigm-destroying new book ... [A] grand, eclectic, wide-ranging work * New York Times * In a work both magisterial and elliptical, Odell takes on the concept of 'time' from every conceivable angle ... This is both an irresistible big-idea book an a guide to rethinking a burning world * LA Times * A penetrating, provocative investigation into the subject of time - how to understand and live with it - on both an individual and societal level ... impressive * Shelf Awareness * Temporal structure has its comforts, particularly following a tumultuous three years ... That yo-you effect [of the last few years] drew me to Saving Time, Jenny Odell's sharp book tracing the cultural forces that shape our conception of time * Laura Regensdorf, Vanity Fair * Odell fights to provide us with an alternative way to experience the time we have * i Paper * Ambitious ... a pleasure to read ... thought-provoking * New Scientist * A sweeping yet personal challenge to assumptions Western society makes about the relationships between individuals and the finite hours in a given day * Time Magazine * Odell argues convincingly that our daily experience is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside * Irish Independent * The best beach read of the year ... Read it, and then think deeply about how you are reading your own time * The Media Leader * Odell's latest book, Saving Time, is great at analysing where a lot of our notions about how to use our time came from (hint: capitalism). * RTE Ireland *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Random House (Digital)
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
15,07 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4735-9189-9 (9781473591899)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
01/2024
Vintage
€16.50
Available immediately
Person
Jenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist and author. Her first book was the New York Times Bestseller, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times, Sierra Magazine, and more. She lives in Oakland, California.
