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Jenny Odell is an American artist and writer based in Oakland, California. Her work examines the intersections of technology, ecology, and attention.
Known for: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
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Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
In 'Saving Time', Jenny Odell explores how our modern relationship with time—shaped by capitalism, technology, and productivity culture—has alienated us from natural rhythms and meaningful living. Drawing on philosophy, ecology, and social critique, Odell invites readers to rethink time as a shared, living resource rather than a commodity to be optimized.
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Historical Context
To understand our modern entrapment in clock time, we have to trace how it was made. For most of human history, time was experienced through cycles: sunrise and sunset, the waxing and waning of the moon, the seasons of planting and harvest. These rhythms were local and embodied, tied to the lived en...
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Colonial and Capitalist Time
Industrial time did not spread evenly across the world. It was enforced, often violently, through colonial expansion. In many indigenous cultures, time flowed through relational events — ceremonies, agricultural cycles, ancestral stories — not through uniform minutes. Colonizers saw this as primitiv...
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About Jenny Odell
Jenny Odell is an American artist and writer based in Oakland, California. Her work examines the intersections of technology, ecology, and attention. She is also the author of the acclaimed book 'How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy'.
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Jenny Odell is an American artist and writer based in Oakland, California. Her work examines the intersections of technology, ecology, and attention.
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