Time, communication and global capitalism / Wayne Hope.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hope, Wayne (Professor of communication studies), author.

Series:

International political economy series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

International political economy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Philosophy.

Capitalism.

Time--Social aspects.

Time.

Time--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xiii, 244 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

"In this book Wayne Hope analyzes the double relation between time and global capitalism. In order to do this, he cross-relates four epistemes of time - epochality, time reckoning temporality and coevalness - with four materializations of time - hegemony, conflict, crisis and rupture. Using this framework allows Hope to argue that global capitalism is epochally distinctive, riven by conflicts, prone to recurring crises, and vulnerable to collective opposition. These critical insights are not easily thematized in a mediated world of real-time reflexivity, detemporalized presentism, and denials of coevalness associated with structural exclusions of the poor. However, the worldwide repercussions of the 2008 financial collapse and the resulting confluence of occupation movements, riots, protests, strike activity, and anti-austerity activism raises the prospect of a rupture within and beyond global capitalism"--Back cover.

Contents:

Epistemes of time in global context

Materializations of time in global context

Epochal shift

Global mediations of time

Capital realization, financialization and time conflict

Political economies of time conflict

Time, communication and financial crisis

Crises without end

Communication, synchronicity and counter-power

Toward a time manifesto.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index.

ISBN:

9781137443458

1137443456

OCLC:

917340825