
Empires of Speed
Time and the Acceleration of Politics and Society
Robert Hassan(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 2. June 2009
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-90-04-17590-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-17590-7 (9789004175907)
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Person
Robert Hassan is leading thinker on the relationships between social time and information technologies. He is co-editor (with Hartmut Rosa) of the journal Time & Society. His most recent book is The Information Society (Polity, 2008).