Saving Time
Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
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Narrated by:
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Kristen Sieh
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By:
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Jenny Odell
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A radical argument that we are living on the wrong clock, one that tells us time is money, and that embracing a new concept of time can open us up to bold, hopeful possibilities from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing.
Our daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside, is destroying us. It wasn't built for people, it was built for profit. This is a book that tears open the seams of reality as we know it-the way we experience time itself-and rearranges it, reimagining a world not centered 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 - that make a more humane, more hopeful way of living seem possible.
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.
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- Chris23
- 29-01-24
Thought provoking
This challenged the way I look at time, I enjoyed it very much. Will give the author’s previous book a try on the back of this.
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- Lizzie Potter
- 24-05-23
Truly life changing
It is hard to describe how deeply this book has changed my view of the world. I have always struggled with time and felt trapped by the clock. Jenny’s beautiful writing helped me to comprehend the way that clock time is just a label, and true life is something that exists in many wider cycles, and moments of nature. Learning about the context of how our society currently functions, rushing around and measuring time, was truly eye opening. This book has forever changed the way I look at the world and I am very grateful to Jenny for that.
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- Michelle L
- 05-12-23
thoroughly informative
I recommend this book for anyone trying to reshape their relationship with clock and calendar time
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- Mr. W. Sanderson
- 27-04-24
Hard to follow due to constantly changing focus?
Really enjoyed 'How To Do Nothing' so was looking forward to this. Was disappointed - might have been something to do with the narrator (though her voice and performance seem fine out of context of the book) but I found it really hard to stay focused
Whole book felt like this this -
im at this specific place, the land is in despute, there a re flowers here that remind me of when i was a child, my friend who has just had a child is letting her child sleep under the nightsky, the moon pulls the sea, in the sea there are many important animals. the specific place i mention is hot today and i left my hat, there is no shade here because the trees have been coppiced. coppicing comes from the word cop-ice which means 2 trees..
No exagertating this is how the whole book felt to me. felt at times like a stream of conciousness though I dont think thats what was intended...
would be constantly thinking.. what is she trying to say here? Feels like there are interesting things in this book but for for reason (maybe its me being impatient) I was unable to get to it
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