Saving Time Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock — Jenny Odell

An original life affirming book that reshapes our relationship with time from the bestselling author of How to Do NothingWe 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 Tanıtım Bülteninden