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92/100Author:
Jenny Odell
Publisher:
Random House
Date:
March 7, 2023
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 and 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, and 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, and a lethal fatalism.
What The Reviewers Say
Paradigm-destroying.
The book is ambitious, expansive, meandering, acute; it helps explain how a person, hoping to reclaim her hours and days, might come to outsource the software of her body to the hardware on her wrist.
A subtle, itinerant study of time.
In Saving Time, with moss as muse, Odell deepens her approach and amplifies her pitch.
