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amduhamel 's review for:
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
by Jenny Odell
Jenny Odell knocks it out of the park again. A brilliant artist-philosopher.
Time:
leisure
chronos/kairos
capitalism
injustice, racial and otherwise
climate change
disability and feminist studies
incarceration
"Compared to chronos, kairos sounds like the domain of those wayfarers who knew that time is inseparable from space and that every place-moment demands close attention, let you miss your opportunity. It's not that you can't plan, but that the time in the plan doesn't appear flat, dead, inert. Instead, in the "meantime," you wait with your ear to the ground for patterns of vibration that will never repeat themselves. Faced with flatness, you look for an opening. When it comes, you take it, and you don't look back." (272)
"The current meaning of apocalypse is modern; in Middle English it simply meant "vision," "insight," or even "hallucination." (187)
"Just as a thought experiment, imagine that you were not born at the end of time, but actually at the exact right time" (187).
"Every piece of writing is a time capsule. It assembles fragments of its own world and sends them onward to a reader who exists in a different one, not just in space but also in time. Even writing privately in a journal presupposes a future self who will be reading it - and a future at all. In the case of this book, I cannot know what has happened between the time I am writing this and the time in which you are encountering it. But I can tell you that I am living in a moment of doubt. Perhaps you are, too." (278)
Time:
leisure
chronos/kairos
capitalism
injustice, racial and otherwise
climate change
disability and feminist studies
incarceration
"Compared to chronos, kairos sounds like the domain of those wayfarers who knew that time is inseparable from space and that every place-moment demands close attention, let you miss your opportunity. It's not that you can't plan, but that the time in the plan doesn't appear flat, dead, inert. Instead, in the "meantime," you wait with your ear to the ground for patterns of vibration that will never repeat themselves. Faced with flatness, you look for an opening. When it comes, you take it, and you don't look back." (272)
"The current meaning of apocalypse is modern; in Middle English it simply meant "vision," "insight," or even "hallucination." (187)
"Just as a thought experiment, imagine that you were not born at the end of time, but actually at the exact right time" (187).
"Every piece of writing is a time capsule. It assembles fragments of its own world and sends them onward to a reader who exists in a different one, not just in space but also in time. Even writing privately in a journal presupposes a future self who will be reading it - and a future at all. In the case of this book, I cannot know what has happened between the time I am writing this and the time in which you are encountering it. But I can tell you that I am living in a moment of doubt. Perhaps you are, too." (278)