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Saving time : discovering a life beyond the clock / Jenny Odell.

Odell, Jenny (Multimedia artist), (author.).

Summary:

"In this dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful reframing of time, Jenny Odell takes us on a journey 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 way the present may suddenly feel marbled with childhood memory, the slow but sure procession of a pregnancy, or the time it takes to heal from injuries--physical or emotional. Odell urges us to become stewards of these different rhythms of life, to imagine a life, identity, and source of meaning outside of 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. In that sense, "saving" time--recovering its fundamentally irreducible and inventive nature--could also mean that time saves us." --Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780593242704
ISBN: 059324270X
Physical Description: xxx, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-346) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Whose time, whose money? -- Self timer -- Can there be leisure? -- Putting time back in its place -- A change of subject -- Uncommon times -- Life extension -- Halving time.