“I’m really trying to work against an instrumental view of time,” says Odell, who is 37, “where it’s either something that is going to help you or hurt you.”Ī lot of your book is looking at the historical relationship between workers and bosses and who is in charge of whose time. Yet who among us hasn’t wished to manage it better, squeeze more out of it or wrest it away from others and get it under our own control? In her newest book, “Saving Time,” Jenny Odell, a visual artist and the author of the best-selling “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,” argues that standard ways of thinking about time - particularly regarding work and what time is owed and to whom - can obscure potentially more humane and expansive, less self-centered notions of time, views that go beyond restrictive notions of efficiency or work-life balance. We all understand, rationally anyway, that time never stops, moves in only one direction, is owned by no one and is impossible to make more of.
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