Jenny Odell writes cultural criticism and essayistic non-fiction about attention, time, technology, work and the ways people notice the environments around them. How to Do Nothing argues against treating every moment of attention as a resource to be captured by platforms or productivity systems, using birdwatching, art, local ecology and public space to ask what becomes visible when attention is redirected. Saving Time examines the idea that time is money, moving through labour history, climate, disability, calendars and natural cycles to consider other ways of organising a life. Odell's books are wide-ranging and associative rather than step-by-step self-help, combining personal observation with political and historical research. They fit attention-economy criticism, technology and society, nature-adjacent essays and books about work and time. Readers of Rebecca Solnit or Jia Tolentino may find a similar movement between cultural analysis and lived experience. Read more Less
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