Saving Time review: We need a longer sense of time – based on nature
In addressing time, Jenny Odell also addresses climate nihilism
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Saving Time
Jenny Odell (The Bodley Head)
THE covid-19 pandemic forced many of us to re-evaluate our relationship with time by removing us from our usual routines. But in Saving Time: Discovering a life beyond the clock, Jenny Odell tries to help the reader overhaul even their most basic conceptions of time.
Odell’s first book – How to Do Nothing, published in 2019 – was a bestseller. It was simultaneously a critique of the attention economy, largely propagated by social media giants, …