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Saving Time (Book)
Odell's 2023 follow-up to How to Do Nothing, extending the argument from attention into explicit political economy of time — the labor history, the temporal coercion, the collective action required to reclaim what the clock has colonized.
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock is Odell's 2023 extension of her earlier framework into explicit engagement with the politics of time. Where How to Do Nothing focused on attention and individual practice, Saving Time examines how clock time became a tool of labor discipline, how capitalism weaponizes scarcity to enforce temporal coercion, and how different communities experience time differently under economic pressure. The book draws on labor history, indigenous conceptions of time, philosophical treatments of temporality, and the concrete experience of people whose time is not their own — care workers, gig workers, those doing invisible domestic labor. Its argument is that the recovery of temporal agency is a collective political project, not a personal mindfulness practice, and that the tools of that recovery include both traditional labor organizing and the cultivation of alternative temporal frameworks that the productivity culture has suppressed.
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