Jenny Odell has been busy lately contemplating time, not so much about how we could use it more productively, but how time, in the hands of taskmasters throughout history, has been used against us. In her latest book, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, Odell discusses how time, something that most of us always figured was just sort of here, ticking away, was actually created and commodified by capitalism to, among other things, squeeze every possible bit of This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Nine Buy Now Related Stories Arts & Culture Issue 47 Julia Bainbridge On the life-enhancing potential of not drinking alcohol. Arts & Culture Issue 45 Lisa Taddeo On writing the secret lives of women. Arts & Culture Issue 42 Torrey Peters The Detransition, Baby author is living her best life. Arts & Culture Issue 40 Deep Time Funk How to think in millennia. Arts & Culture Issue 39 Nic Stone How can a young adult fiction author tackle racism, inequality and incarceration—but not rob teen readers of their optimism? Arts & Culture Issue 39 Half a Notion A reassessment of ambivalence.
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