Emergence Magazine Podcast

Another Kind of Time – a conversation with Jenny Odell

Apr 25, 2023

01:03:28

Episode guests

Jenny Odell

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

The Importance of Clarity in a Pandemic

01:55

The Importance of Time

03:09

The Importance of Timekeeping

02:26

The Unpredictability of Every Moment

03:07

Introduction

2min

The Importance of Language in the Making of Time

3min

The Distancing of Time From Nature

3min

The Importance of Timekeeping

2min

The Importance of Learning to Speak a Different Language About Time

6min

The Difference Between Kronos Time and Chiro's Time

3min

The Unpredictability of Every Moment

3min

The Lesser Minds Bias

3min

The Importance of Clarity in a Pandemic

2min

10.

The Importance of Embracing Different Dimensions of Vertical Time

4min

11.

The Seasons of Time

5min

12.

The Paradox of Air Quality

2min

13.

The Inseparability of Time and Space

4min

14.

The Importance of Unfreezing Time

4min

15.

The Importance of Recognizing Patterns of Time

4min

16.

The Abandonment of Hierarchy in Ecology

2min

17.

The Importance of Listening to the Animal World

3min

18.

The Importance of Gardening Time

3min

19.

The Importance of Time

3min

20.

The Threads Connecting Ecology Culture and Spirituality

2min

How we experience time is, ultimately, how we experience our lives. In this conversation with Jenny Odell, artist and author of Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, she describes the social and cultural ideas that underpin our sense of standardized, mechanized time, which has laid an abstract grid over the living world. What choices, what futures, might become possible, she asks, if we allowed ourselves to slip free of the grip of linear, predictable chronos time and be swept into dynamic, interruptive kairos time?

Read the transcript: https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/another-kind-of-time/

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