
Time
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This book represents a major contribution to the understandingof time, giving particular attention to time in relation tomodernity. The development of industrialism, the author points out,was based upon a linear and abstract conception of time. Today wesee that form of production, and the social institutions associatedwith it, supplanted by flexible specialization and just-in-timeproduction systems. New information and communication technologieshave made a fundamental impact here. But what does all this meanfor temporal regimes? How can we understand the transformation oftime and space involved in the bewildering variety of options onoffer in a postmodern world?
The author provides an incisive analysis of the temporalimplications of modern communication. She considers theimplications of worldwide simultaneous experience, made possible bysatellite technologies, and considers the reorganization of timeinvolved in the continuous technological innovation that marks ourera. In this puzzling universe of action, how does one achieve a'time of one's own'? The discovery of a specific time perspectivecentred in the individual, she shows, expresses a yearning forforms of experience that are subversive of establishedinstitutional patterns.
This brilliant study, became a classic in Germany, will be ofinterest to students and professionals working in the areas ofsocial theory, sociology, politics and anthropology.
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Content
Introduction.
1. The Illusion of Simultaneity.
2. From the Future to the Extended Present.
3. Cronos's Fear of the New Age.
4. Politics of Time: The Distribution of Work and Time.
5. The Longing for the Moment.
Postscript.
Notes.
Index.
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