Jenny Odell to Speak at the Main Library
8/2/2023 • 9 months ago
The Library will welcome Jenny Odell for a conversation about her latest bestselling book,
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock at the Main Library on Thursday, August 10, from 6-7:30 p.m. This program is sponsored by the
Cambridge Public Library Foundation.
Jenny Odell, author of
New York Times bestseller
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, examines a new way to think about time in her latest book,
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. In
Saving Time, Odell raises questions about our conceptions of time by taking a deep dive into the fundamental structure of our society. What she found was that the clock we live by was built for profit, not people. Odell connects our relationship with time to persisting social inequities, the climate crisis, existential dread, and a lethal fatalism.
Saving Time offers different ways to experience time and recenter what’s really important.
Jenny Odell is a multidisciplinary artist and author. Her first book
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy was the
New York Times bestseller. Her writing has appeared in
The Atlantic,
The New York Times,
Sierra magazine, and other publications.
Saving Time is her second book. This will be a hybrid event, and
registration is required.
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