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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
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What a fascinating read. I appreciated the look into time from multiple aspects, as well as discussing climate change and how time is different for BIPOC and disabled people. As someone who is constantly thinking about the future and what will exist, it felt oddly soothing to have this subject matter discussed in a digestible way and also, with a bit of hope. I can see this not being for everyone, and it's NOT self help, but this book really meant a lot to me, especially as we're going through a turbulent time.
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This felt too much like a textbook. I want to come back to it another time but right now there’s just too much going on in the world and I need reading to be an escape.
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I didn’t care for Odell’s previous book because while I found the ideas in it intriguing, her writing was very pretentious. And unfortunately, this one isn’t any better in that respect. I found myself having to skim this one in parts because her writing was so full of itself and obnoxious. Again, some good ideas in here but the writing annoyed me.
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Listened to audiobook, which is challenging for my focus, and the book's structure also, I think, presented some challenges. A lot of very compelling ideas.
A very interesting book/set of essays taking aim at Western culture's preoccupation with measuring time in terms of economic productivity. Her discussion is very wide ranging (at times it seems too wide ranging) but so philosophical with an extraordinary bibliography. For a visual artist she describes geological processes a lot:)
Key discussions - the history of time management, linking it to industrialization and the tension between capital and workers; who get to control their time versus those do not (yet even many of those with control find themselves racing); leisure - including issue of whether leisure is at the expense of another, and who has been able to use public spaces; "alternative" views of time - those observed in nature (geological process, plant growth, animal behaviour) and cultures (esp. indigenous) that have adopted those viewpoints; and valuation of human worth not just as economic being.
The book isn't perfect (it is unwieldy) and I don't buy all her arguments but I liked being prodded to think about of these issues.
Key discussions - the history of time management, linking it to industrialization and the tension between capital and workers; who get to control their time versus those do not (yet even many of those with control find themselves racing); leisure - including issue of whether leisure is at the expense of another, and who has been able to use public spaces; "alternative" views of time - those observed in nature (geological process, plant growth, animal behaviour) and cultures (esp. indigenous) that have adopted those viewpoints; and valuation of human worth not just as economic being.
The book isn't perfect (it is unwieldy) and I don't buy all her arguments but I liked being prodded to think about of these issues.