Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
nonfiction-book · First published 2023
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Jenny Odell Books in Order
Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based multidisciplinary visual artist and writer whose work explores close observation, attention, objects, infrastructure, technology, and time. She is the author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, and Inhabiting the Negative Space. She has taught studio art and digital art at Stanford University.
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Best-known and most accessible introduction to Odell's central concerns about attention, technology, politics, and observation.
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
A strong starting point for Odell's later work on time, labor, ecology, and alternative ways of living.
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Books by series
art-project · ongoing
Satellite Collections
An ongoing body of artist books and related visual works made by collecting and isolating human-made forms from Google satellite imagery.
art-project · ongoing
Bureau of Suspended Objects
An artist-led archive and exhibition project documenting the histories, manufacture, circulation, value, and disposal of objects.
- 1 The Archive of the Bureau of Suspended ObjectsAmazon ↗
Book 1 · artist-book · 2015
- 2 The Bureau of Suspended Objects at the Contemporary Jewish MuseumAmazon ↗
Book 2 · exhibition-catalogue · 2016
- 3 The Bureau of Suspended Objects at the Palo Alto Art CenterAmazon ↗
Book 3 · exhibition-catalogue · 2016
- 4 There's No Such Thing as a Free WatchAmazon ↗
Book 4 · zine · 2017
Outside the series
