Jenny Odell

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

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

A penetrating, provocative investigation into the subject of time - how to understand and live with it - on both an individual and societal level ... impressive

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

Odell fights to provide us with an alternative way to experience the time we have

Ambitious ... a pleasure to read ... thought-provoking

A sweeping yet personal challenge to assumptions Western society makes about the relationships between individuals and the finite hours in a given day

Odell argues convincingly that our daily experience is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside

The best beach read of the year ... Read it, and then think deeply about how you are reading your own time

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).

One of President Barack Obama's 'Favourite books of 2019'

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Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

We're living on the wrong clock - one that tells us time is money - and it's destroying us. 
 
Here is a radical argument for other ways of experiencing time that offer hopeful possibilities for ourselves and the planet. 
 
Our daily experience is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside. It wasn't devised for people, but for profit. Saving Time rearranges how we experience time, and imagines a world not centred around work, the office clock, or the profit motive. Explaining how we got to the point where time became money, Odell offers us new models to live by - inspired by pre-industrial cultures, ecological, and geological time. 
 
In this dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful journey, Jenny Odell takes us through other temporal habitats: as planet-bound animals, we live inside shortening and lengthening days, alongside gardens growing, birds migrating, and cliffs eroding; the stretchy quality of waiting and desire, the slow but sure procession of a pregnancy, or the time it takes to heal. 
 
She urges us to become stewards of these different rhythms, to imagine a source of meaning outside the world of work and profit, and to understand that the trajectory of our lives - or the life of the planet - is not a foregone conclusion. 
 
Now is our moment to rethink. And if we do, time might just save us.

Jenny Odell

Praise for Saving Time

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 wor ...

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

A penetrating, provocative investigation into the subject of time - how to understand and live with it - on both an individual and societal level ... impressive

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 wor ...

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

A penetrating, provocative investigation into the subject of time - how to understand and live with it - on both an individual and societal level ... impressive

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 wor ...

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

A penetrating, provocative investigation into the subject of time - how to understand and live with it - on both an individual and societal level ... impressive

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