Empires of speed : time and the acceleration of politics and society /
by Robert Hassan.
- 254 pages ; 25 cm.
- Supplements to The study of time, v. 4 .
- Supplements to The study of time ; v. 4. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index.
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.
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Time--Sociological aspects Information society. Information technology--Social aspects. Computers and civilization