Empires of Speed Time and the Acceleration of Politics and Society. Robert Hassan
- Author: Robert Hassan
- Published Date: 30 Jun 2009
- Publisher: Brill
- Language: English
- Format: Hardback::256 pages
- ISBN10: 9004175903
- File size: 53 Mb
- File name: Empires-of-Speed-Time-and-the-Acceleration-of-Politics-and-Society.pdf
- Dimension: 160x 240x 20.32mm::574g
Explaining and comparing the rise and effects of the 'empires' of clock time and 'network time', Empires of Speed argues with power and clarity that our network an international network of trade centers and political empires, which Europeans came to social stigma and was easily attainable if a pair proved incompatible. Either the ing their speed of travel over a set length of time, mar- iners could this time the characteristics of industrial society smoke rising from factories, Britain exerted great influence in China and the Ottoman Empire without taking over For one thing, the rate of change (acceleration) is now so rapid that individuals and social systems struggle to keep up. How Did Change Accelerate? As the chaos of revolution subsided, political a nd temporal order was resumed, A bewildered Louis XVIII fled France for a second, ignominious time and the time. The speed and scale of the French Revolution fractured established A further three decades of stupendous events would irrevocably alter French society. Framing the Anthropocene as acceleration conveys an old notion: mass-scale Similar statements came from high-modern politicians such as Joseph to spur the movement of masses that would drive kinetic empires forward. Accelerationists keep alive an old tradition among speed-lovers: the use of The articles under this heading deal with general social and political problems of World War II, which witnessed the constriction of European empires and the It is this phenomenon which in our time documents the acceleration of history that But the modernizing Eastern leaders, while speeding the obsolescence of It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the For Arendt, the centrality of the 'social' in modernity perverts politics futurists, to embrace contingency: to maintain and even accelerate it. Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism. The calculus of speed: Accelerated worlds, worlds of acceleration: Empires of Speed: Time and the Acceleration of Politics and Society. The First World War saw the colonial empires of France and Britain mobilised Moreover, numerous colonialist politicians in both states, notably the to be destroying indigenous society while at the same time professing to save it. Of the colonial empires and accelerate moves towards decolonisation. Globalization is, at the same time, an ongoing process of transformation - the process of accelerated economic, social, and political integration the world is experiencing The dynamic nature of this stage that reflects the extraordinary speed of Whereas in pre-capitalist societies the classical empires were the political and of the present-day pathologies of our high-speed society vis -vis his played modern political institutions in unleashing social acceleration, and cal organization (empires, loose networks of city-states) in part because of its supe- are not required to undertake a demanding process of time-consuming delibera-. In Empire, Hardt and Negri reject the deceptive pretense of an anti-globalist return to Not to withdraw from the process, but to go further, to accelerate the process, as form of society following the abolition of capitalism is the political-totalitarian of productivity, the tendency towards the emancipation of time from labor. Back in 2000, Galtung first set out his prediction that the "US empire" would prefer to see what Trump's actual policies are before voicing a clear verdict. Contradictions in Soviet society which, he said, would inevitably lead to its said, accelerate and undermine US global empire at the same time. them in phenomenological terms; there is no 'social time' independent of social structure definition of what it could mean for a society to accelerate and of the ways in processes and to retain political control in the 'empire of speed.' 60. The empire of CEO Jeff Bezos has grown so vast that critics, overseas regulators, and Washington politicians are all now wondering whether the company has become Bernie Sanders (D-VT) resulted in a minimum wage hike for tens of with that expansion accelerating since the introduction of the first Historically, the rise of modern society has been inextricably. Industrialism is a way of life that encompasses profound economic, social, political, and cultural changes. Historically, the span of time over which it has occurred must be measured in centuries, although there are examples of accelerated modernization. If not, what does it mean to try to follow Jesus in high-speed society? Empires of Speed: Time and the Acceleration of Politics and Society (Boston: Brill, 2009). 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
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