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Liberal democracy and the social acceleration of time.
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ISBN: 0801878853 Year: 2004 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins university press

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Insights on information absorption and transmission rates in C²I settings
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Year: 1985 Publisher: Alexandria, VA : U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Science,

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Insights on information absorption and transmission rates in C²I settings
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Year: 1985 Publisher: Alexandria, VA : U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Science,

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Beschleunigung: die Veränderung der Zeitstrukturen in der Moderne
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ISBN: 3518293605 9783518293607 Year: 2005 Volume: 1760 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp

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Das Buch unternimmt erstmals den Versuch, die sich potenzierende Dynamisierung gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse, wie sie in der jüngsten politischen und digitalen Beschleunigungswelle etwa unter dem Stichwort ›Globalisierung‹ firmiert, systematisch zu erfassen und sie in ihren kulturellen und strukturellen Ursachen ebenso wie in ihren Auswirkungen auf die individuelle und kollektive Lebensführung zu analysieren. Entwickelt wird dabei die These, daß die zunächst befreiende und befähigende Wirkung der modernen sozialen Beschleunigung, die mit den technischen Geschwindigkeitssteigerungen des Transports, der Kommunikation oder der Produktion zusammenhängt, in der Spätmoderne in ihr Gegenteil umzuschlagen droht. Individuell wie kollektiv verändert sich die Erfahrung von Zeit und Geschichte: An die Stelle einer gerichteten Vorwärtsbewegung tritt die Wahrnehmung einer gleichsam bewegungslosen und in sich erstarrten Steigerungsspirale.


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Timescapes of waiting : spaces of stasis, delay and deferral
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ISBN: 900440712X 9004406956 Year: 2019 Publisher: Leiden Boston : Brill | Rodopi,

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Timescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im-)mobility. The individual articles approach these spaces from a variety of academic perspectives – including the realms of history, architecture, law and literary and cultural studies – in order to probe the fluid relationships between power, time and space. The contributors offer discussion and analysis of waiting spaces like ante-chambers, prisons, hospitals, and refugee camps, and also of more elusive spaces such as communities and nation-states. Contributors: Olaf Berwald, Elise Brault-Dreux, Richard Hardack, Kerstin Howaldt, Robin Kellermann, Amanda Lagji, Margaret Olin, Helmut Puff, Katrin Röder, Christoph Singer, Cornelia Wächter, Robert Wirth.


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Pressed for time : the acceleration of life in digital capitalism
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ISBN: 9780226380841 9780226196473 9780226196503 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press,

Tyranny of the moment : fast and slow time in the information age
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ISBN: 074531774X 0745317758 9780745317755 9780745317748 Year: 2001 Publisher: London Pluto Press

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This fascinating and original book argues that slow time is an increasingly scarce resource in the information age. Using a wealth of examples, *Tyranny of the Moment*, takes a cool, diagnostic look at this 'hurried era'. It shows how phenomena such as soap operas, correspondence, youth culture, advertising and 'flexible work' are connected to the same logic, based on information technology, and how they link up with the history of modern society. At the same time, it indicates that there are deep contradictions in technology-driven contemporary society. Who would have expected apparently time-saving technology, from the filofax to e-mail and the mobile phone, to result in time being scarcer than ever? Since we are now theoretically 'on line' 24 hours a day, we must fight for the right to be unavailable - the right to live and think more slowly. Eriksen considers the main cause of the problem as the exponential growth in everything to do with communication - from web pages to air traffic. The result is potentially devastating, as life in western societies threatens to desintegrate into disjointed and incoherent fragments.


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Thank you for being late : an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations
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ISBN: 9780241300978 9780241301449 Year: 2016 Publisher: Baltimore (Md.) Penguin books

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High-speed society : social acceleration, power, and modernity.
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ISBN: 9780271034164 Year: 2009 Publisher: Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State university press

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"Examines the processes of acceleration in politics, economic, culture, and society at large. Focuses on why and how the high-speed contours of crucial forms of social activity now shape so many facets of human existence, and suggests possible responses"--Provided by publisher.

Cool down : getting further by going slower
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ISBN: 1283202999 9786613202994 0470157798 9780470157794 9780470675311 0470675314 0470839023 9780470839027 9781283202992 6613202991 Year: 2007 Publisher: Mississauga, Ont. : J. Wiley & Sons Canada,

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Tap into the power that cool thinking generates-learn how going slower can actually help you get more done, faster. Before you check your wireless e-mail for the fourth time this hour, ask yourself, is this truly helping you get further ahead? Or is the pressure to address the immediate actually pushing you backwards? Cool Down takes a look at our innate and powerful addiction to high-speed activity, and shows how it is robbing us of the ability to think creatively and to connect with others (clients, colleagues, managers, and even family) just when we need to the most.

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