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

time became codified and commodified

“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’

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