Review: In “Saving Time,” her follow-up to “How to Do Nothing,” Jenny Odell invites us to reconsider both the times we’re living through and the way we let time pass
While this situation may not be new, it feels increasingly unsustainable, in no small part because we are also living alongside the reality of climate change. We are burning out while the Earth is burning, and we are also, with every passing minute, growing older and closer to death. In her newest book, “,” Jenny Odell traces the path that brought us to this existential crossroads. In the process, she attempts to give us tools to leave these conceptions of time behind.
Odell is an artist and a writer, not a historian, so her line of inquiry always begins with noticing. “Saving Time” is threaded with her own experience of paying deep attention to the place she is in. The book opens with a meditation on moss in her apartment, and in each chapter, there’s a parallel journey, a handful of italicized paragraphs that break up the text, typically along with photos.
The necessary abstraction that comes with any discussion of time makes the potential takeaways even slipperier: In one section, Odell invites us to “halve time,” to “make a cut inand hold the past and the future apart as much as hope will allow,” pointing to “chronos,” the ancient Greek word for linear time. Though that’s beautifully written, it’s hard to say with any precision what making a cut in chronos would do for our collective lives — or what it would even entail.
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