Jenny Odell Welcomes the Spiral

The artist and author of a pandemic breakout about how to “resist the attention economy” returns with a book-length examination of the nature of time. “I remember being like, Why didn’t I write a book about, like, table tennis?” she says. “But then I was like, Well, you know, if I wrote a book about table tennis, somehow I would find a way to make table tennis be about the most pressing questions.”