Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

201 Franklin Street,San Francisco CA 94102

07 March, 2023

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The Long Now Foundation welcomes Jenny OdellSaving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the ClockDoors at 6:00pm, talk starts at 7:00pm "What first appears to be a wish for more time may turn out to be just one part of a simple, yet vast, desire for autonomy, meaning, and purpose." - Jenny Odell Artist and writer Jenny Odell brings her acutely insightful observations to the dominant framework of time, based on industrial and colonial worldviews, that is embedded within our societies. Addressing the inability to reconcile the artificially constructed time pressures of modern culture with planetary-scale crisis, she offers a series of histories, concepts, and places as "provocations that can defamiliarize an old language of time, while pointing in the direction of something else." Tickets are bundled with a copy of the new book. Long Now Members purchase the book but get their usual complimentary tickets for the in-person event. We'll have a pre-show bar at SFJAZZ and additional copies of Odell's new book for sale. Afterwards, attendees can gather at The Madrigal for further drinks and conversation. This evening is in partnership with The Booksmith and City Arts & Lectures. Odell's newest book is Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (March 02023) and her first book is the widely-read How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (02019). Her visual work is exhibited internationally, and she's been artist in residence at Recology SF (the dump), the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and the Montalvo Arts Center. Previously, Odell taught digital art at Stanford University. Long Now Talks explore compelling ideas on long-term thinking from speakers around the world. Long Now members hear about our upcoming speakers first & can reserve 2 free tickets to the in-person talks. Become a member to support the series and help share the ideas around long-term thinking widely. You can watch the videos, subscribe to our podcasts, and read about our ideas, interviews, projects, stories and musings spanning the deep past into the far future.