The Sociology of Speed
Digital, Organizational, and Social Temporalities
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- Kiadó OUP Oxford
- Megjelenés dátuma 2016. december 1.
- ISBN 9780198782865
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem226 oldal
- Méret 233x152x12 mm
- Súly 326 g
- Nyelv angol 0
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Rövid leírás:
There is widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be. This book argues that popular and scholarly claims about acceleration gloss over the complex relationship of technology, speed and time. Rather than digital devices rushing us, our experience of always being rushed is the result of the priorities and parameters we ourselves set
TöbbHosszú leírás:
There is a widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be. We hear constant laments that we live too fast, that time is scarce, and that the pace of everyday life is spiraling out of our control. The iconic image that abounds is that of the frenetic, technologically tethered, iPhone/iPad-addicted citizen. Yet weren't modern machines supposed to save, and thereby free up, time?
The purpose of this book is to bring a much-needed sociological perspective to bear on speed: it examines how speed and acceleration came to signify the zeitgeist, and explores the political implications of this. Among the major questions addressed are: when did acceleration become the primary rationale for technological innovation and the key measure of social progress? Is acceleration occurring across all sectors of society and all aspects of life, or are some groups able to mobilise speed as a resource while others are marginalised and excluded? Does the growing centrality of technological mediations (of both information and communication) produce slower as well as faster times, waiting as well as 'busyness', stasis as well as mobility? To what extent is the contemporary imperative of speed as much a cultural artefact as a material one? To make sense of everyday life in the twenty-first century, we must begin by interrogating the social dynamics of speed.
This book shows how time is a collective accomplishment, and that temporality is experienced very differently by diverse groups of people, especially between the affluent and those who service them.
Together with Judy Wajcman's recent oeuvre and preoccupation with the temporal, the evolving debate offers new sensitivities, conceptual connections that illuminate and explain the continuously reshuffling nature of the science, technology, and society relationship.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Introduction
Part I: Theories
Simmel and Benjamin: Early Theorists of the Acceleration Society
De-Synchronization, Dynamic Stabilization, Dispositional Squeeze: The Problem of Temporal Mismatch
Accelerating to the Future
Part II: Materialities
Capital's Geodesic: Chicago, New Jersey, and the Material Sociology of Speed
Digital Cultures of Use and their Infrastructures
'A Pause in the Impatience of Things': Notes on Bureaucracy and Speed
The Athleticism Of Accomplishment: Time Management and the Labor of Productivity
Part III: Temporalities
Being on Hold: Trials and Tribulations of Outsourcing the Time Burden
Speed Trap and the Temporal: Of Taxis, Truck Stops, and Task Rabbits
Bending Time to a New End: Investigating the Idea of Temporal Entrepreneurship
Speed, Time, Infrastructure: Temporalities of Breakdown, Maintenance and Repair
