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Saving Time - Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (Hardcover)
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Saving Time - Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (Hardcover)
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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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