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Another Kind of Time – a conversation with Jenny Odell

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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The Importance of Unfreezing Time

In the book you tell the story of a branch on a tree you visited regularly in a park near your home and how your observations of this branch led you to the importance of unfreezing something in time. I've known about Buckeye trees for a long time they're on the Stanford campus so I would see them but as a result of looking at this one branch I became extremely familiar with the kind of really specific events that would happen in one branch. Even as the leaves are dying and the trees going dormant the yellow of the leaf is like the way it spreads across the leaf or the way it spread across the tree is very non-uniform. So even that as an expression of

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