Auckland Writers Festival: Life Beyond the Clock with Jenny Odell

In her New York Times bestseller How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell confronted the ceaseless demands on our time and focus, dismantling the cult of efficiency. Fiercely intelligent and original, she offered both a critique of the forces vying for our engagement and an action plan for how to resist them. Her latest book, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, takes a deep dive into the fundamental structure of our society and finds that the clock we live by is built for profit, not people. A subversive, compassionate and profound voice for our cultural moment in time, she presents her case for new ways to imagine life. Chaired by Rosabel Tan.