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Informationen zum Autor Jenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist and author. Her first book was the New York Times Bestseller, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy . Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic , New York Times , Sierra Magazine , and more. She lives in Oakland, California. Klappentext **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'To read it is ... to experience how freedom might feel' Oliver Burkeman 'The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns ... Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing' Esquire We're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us. Our life is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside. It wasn't devised for people, but for profit. We need to embrace a whole new concept of time: one that gives us and our planet a brighter future. In Saving Time , Jenny Odell, bestselling author of How to Do Nothing , examines how we got to the point where time became money. Taking inspiration from the pre-industrial, ecological and geological rhythms of our world, she offers us radical new models to live by that make a more humane, more hopeful existence seem possible. Now is our moment to rethink. And if we do, time might just save us. 'An inimitable gift' Jia Tolentino 'One of the most important books I've read in my life' Ed Yong Zusammenfassung **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'To read it is ... to experience how freedom might feel' Oliver Burkeman 'The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns ... Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing' Esquire We're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us. Our life is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside. It wasn't devised for people, but for profit. We need to embrace a whole new concept of time: one that gives us and our planet a brighter future. In Saving Time , Jenny Odell, bestselling author of How to Do Nothing , examines how we got to the point where time became money. Taking inspiration from the pre-industrial, ecological and geological rhythms of our world, she offers us radical new models to live by that make a more humane, more hopeful existence seem possible. Now is our moment to rethink. And if we do, time might just save us. 'An inimitable gift' Jia Tolentino 'One of the most important books I've read in my life' Ed Yong ...
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It is in the gap between present and future, where outcomes are not yet determined, that Jenny Odell enters with her paradigm-destroying new book ... [A] grand, eclectic, wide-ranging work New York Times
