About the author
Jenny Odell is an American artist, writer, and educator whose work is concerned with attention, place, time, ecology, and the structures that decide what counts as productive. Her visual art often begins with found images and systems of classification.
How to Do Nothing proposes attention as a site of refusal and renewed relationship to place. Saving Time later examines clocks, labor, climate, and the politics built into standardized accounts of time.
Where to start
Start with How to Do Nothing for Odell's argument about attention and place, then read Saving Time for the wider inquiry into labor and temporal control.
