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Life Beyond the Clock with Jenny Odell

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How to Do Nothing: A Guide to the Future and Time

In How to Do Nothing, you offer alternative views on that kind of demystifying that. What is this perception of time that may be unhelpful for the climate crisis that we're in and what are other ways to view time that might be more hopeful or helpful? Yeah. I think one way I could illustrate it is a nightmare that I had while the fires were happening here in 2020, which was that I would frequently have nightmares about fire. It just kind of like liquidates that space, which is the future, liquidates the future. And so there's also a lack of variation that I think contributes to this feeling that it's almost as if it might as well already

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