Empires of speed : time and the acceleration of politics and society

Publication Data

• Title Empires of speed : time and the acceleration of politics and society
• Author Robert Hassan
• Publisher Brill
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Leiden
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Time :: Sociological aspects
• Information society
• Information technology :: Social aspects
• Computers and civilization

Empires of speed : time and the acceleration of politics and society by Robert Hassan. ISBN 9789004175907. Published by Brill in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.