Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

This title has a release date of March 7, 2023. See below for more information.

Written by: Jenny Odell

Publisher: Random House

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock Release Date

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock releases March 7, 2023

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March 7, 2023

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Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock released on March 7, 2023.

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock Synopsis

We are living on the wrong clock, and it is destroying us. The New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing offers us different ways to experience time in this dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book.

In How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from the “attention economy” to spend time in quiet contemplation. But 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.

Inspired by pre-industrial cultures, ecological cues, and geological timescales, Saving Time brings within reach a more humane, responsive way of living. 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; the time it takes to heal from injuries. Odell urges us to become stewards of these different rhythms of life in which time is not reducible to standardized units and instead forms the very medium of possibility.

Saving Time tugs at the seams of reality as we know it—the way we experience time itself—and rearranges it, imagining a world not centered on work, the office clock, or the profit motive. If we can “save” time by imagining a life, identity, and source of meaning outside these things, time might also save us.

Genre: Nonfiction

Jenny Odell
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