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Why do we have clocks? An ambitious new book from Jenny Odell deconstructs their origins and argues for more nature-based measures

By Jason Arunn Murugesu

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THE covid-19 pandemic forced many of us to re-evaluate our relationship with time by removing us from our usual routines. But in Saving Time: Discovering a life beyond the clock, Jenny Odell tries to help the reader overhaul even their most basic conceptions of time.

Odell’s first book – How to Do Nothing, published in 2019 – was a bestseller. It was simultaneously a critique of the attention economy, largely propagated by social media giants, …

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