num_pages: 302
description: Time Wars is for anyone who has ever wondered why, in a culture so obsessed with efficiency, we seem to have so little time we can call our own. As the author states in his introduction:If centralization, concentration, and accumulation epitomized the bigger-is-better theme of spatial politics, then efficiency and speed characterize the time values of the modern age. For a long time, the notion of efficiency and speed enjoyed the same kind of unqualified enthusiasm as the notion of gigantism. If bigger was better, then faster and more efficient was more effective[...]"Time is money" best expresses the temporal spirit of the age.As society at large careens towards the high-speed culture of the twenty-first century, small pockets of protest have begun to appear[...] They would ask us to give up our preocupation with acelerating time and begin the process of reintegrating ourselves back into the periodicities that make up the many physiological time worlds of the earth organism. ContentsIntroductionI. THE TEMPORAL CONTEXT1. The new nanosecond culture2. Chronobiology: The clocks that make us run3. Anthropological time zonesII. DIVIDING THE PIE4. Calendars and clout5. Schedules and clocks6. Time schedules and factory discipline7. Programs and computers8. The efficient societyIII. THE POLITICS OF PARADISE9. The timeless State10. The image of progress11. The vision of simulated worlds12. Time pyramids and time ghettosIV. Cosmic timepieces and political legitimacy13. The clockwork universe14. The information universeV. THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF TIME15. Temporal treks and future options16. Beyond Left and RightNotesSelected bibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex
language: English
title: Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History
titlecomplete: Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History
genres: History, Philosophy, Economics, Psychology, Nonfiction, Academic
ratings_count: 78
publisher: Touchstone Books