Empires of speed : time and the acceleration of politics and society / by Robert Hassan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hassan, Robert, 1959-

Series:

Supplements to The study of time ; v. 4.

Supplements to The study of time, 1843-7463 ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Sociological aspects.

Time.

Information society.

Information technology--Social aspects.

Information technology.

Computers and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The beginning of the 21st century is witnessing the emergence of a social, political and technological revolution in networked computing. We now live in a networked society, but it functions and develops at such an accelerating rate that it becomes increasingly difficult to adequately understand the nature of this radical society. Empires of Speed is the first book to analyse the far-reaching transformations of speed-filled everyday life. In a compelling study Hassan shows that we are leaving behind a modern world based upon the time of the clock, and are entering a new and volatile phase where an accelerating ‘network time’ poses fundamental economic and political challenges in our postmodern world, challenges we barely comprehend and are thus woefully unprepared for.

Contents:

A new empire

The first empire of speed : clock time modernity

The second empire of speed : networked society

Pathologies of speed

Cyberculture : a culture of speed

The speed of liberal democracy

Time for politics : a temporalized democracy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612401336

90-04-18685-9

OCLC:

575710370

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004175907.i-254 DOI