Empires of speed
Subtitle: time and the acceleration of politics and society
By: by Robert Hassan.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789004175907
Subjects: Time -- Sociological aspects; Information society; Information technology -- Social aspects; Computers and civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A new empire; title: The first empire of speed : clock time modernity; title: The second empire of speed : networked society; title: Pathologies of speed; title: Cyberculture : a culture of speed; title: The speed of liberal democracy; title: Time for politics : a temporalized democracy.