LoveReading Says
An inspiring book for everyone. If you’re always looking at your watch or frantically working within timescales, or if you’re simply aware of time constantly slipping through your fingers, then create some space for this book in your life. It isn’t a quick read, in fact I recommend slowing down to allow your thoughts to fully access, to savour and consider. The concept of time is incredibly simple, yet intricately complicated and intertwined within our lives. Jenny Odell (bestselling author of How to Do Nothing recommended by Barack Obama) gives us: “conceptual tools for thinking about what “your time” has to do with the time you live in”. She states: “I believe that a real meditation on the nature of time, unbound from its everyday capitalist incarnation, shows that neither our lives nor the life of the planet is a foregone conclusion. In that sense, the idea that we could “save” time - by recovering its fundamentally irreducible and inventive nature - could also mean that time saves us”. Here you explore time on both an epic and an intimate scale, it felt to me like an awakening, and a realisation. This is a book that is perfectly placed to exist after the lockdowns of Covid-19, a time when apparently many people aged faster, and gives you the chance and encouragement to look at life and your place within the world. Saving Time is thought-provoking and thoughtful in its purpose, a LoveReading Star Book and Liz Pick of the Month, it comes as highly recommended by our team.
Liz Robinson
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Saving Time Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that 'time is money.' . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing."-Esquire
"One of the most important books I've read in my life."-Ed Yong, author of An Immense World
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from the "attention economy" to spend time in quiet contemplation. But how can we reclaim our time?
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.
This dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book offers us different ways to experience time-inspired by pre-industrial cultures, ecological cues, and geological timescales-that can bring 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.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780593242704 |
| Publication date: |
7th March 2023 |
| Author: |
Jenny Odell |
| Publisher: |
Random House an imprint of Random House Publishing Group |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
400 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Popular Science
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