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

“I’m really interested in problems that feel personal and are experienced personally, but tie into much larger historical and structural forces,” Odell said.

“Time feels thicker. It’s made out of stuff. It’s made out of people and things that are in it. It doesn’t have as much of that ‘empty grid of minutes’ kind of feeling,” she said. “When you start to think of time in more collective ways, trying to leave behind the individual time banks, it opens up the horizon of what’s possible in your and others’

time became codified and commodified

“I want to think about time in a shared way,” Odell said. “What becomes possible collectively when you remove the grid, and stop thinking about it as little bits of time currency in each individual person’s time bank, and that all you can do is hoard it.”