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Empires of Speed: Time and the Acceleration of Politics and Society

Empires of Speed: Time and the Acceleration of Politics and Society

Hassan, Robert

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyPhysics

ISBN10: 9004175903
ISBN13: 9789004175907
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 2 2009
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
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.

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