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Author Odell, Jenny (Multimedia artist), author.

Title Saving time : discovering a life beyond the clock / Jenny Odell.

Imprint New York : Random House, [2023]
First edition.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  PRO 153.7 Odell    ---  Available
Description xxx, 364 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Note "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 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."--Jacket flap.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-346) and index.
Genre/Form Self-help publications.
Subject Work-life balance.
Work -- Philosophy
Attention -- Philosophy.
Reflection (Philosophy)
Information technology -- Social aspects.
Time -- Philosophy.
ISBN 9780593242704 (hardcover)

 
    
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