Time Has Been Codified and Commodified. Jenny Odell Wants to Set It Free

“In a situation where every waking moment has become the time in which we make our living,” Odell notes, “and when we submit even our leisure for numerical evaluation via likes on Facebook and Instagram, constantly checking on its performance like one checks a stock, time becomes an economic resource that we can no longer justify spending on ‘nothi

a similar battle playing out for our time, a colonization of the self by capitalist ideas of productivity and efficiency.