Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

by Jenny Odell

In the conclusion of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Naomi Klein writes honestly about her own fear regarding the future and motions toward kairos as it relates to action. She recognizes “upwellings” and “effervescent moment[s]” in which “societies become consumed with the demand for transformational change.” These moments often come as a surprise, even to longtime organizers—the surprise that “we are so much more than we have been told we are—that we long for more and in that longing have more company