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Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality

Modern life is speeding-up, incessantly. Strange as it is, while the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless feels like we are running out of time. In all western societies alike, time-famine is rising and individuals report the impression that they have to run faster and faster each year — not in order to get somewhere, but just to stay in place! This book presents an analytic framework to identify the causes and effects of the various sped-up-processes which define modernity — and it develops a critical theory of late-modern temporality. Crucial for this is the idea that acceleration in the end leads to monstrous forms of alienation from time and space, from things and actions — and from self and others.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 111
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9788787564144
  • Genres
  • sociology, philosophy, technology, politics
  • Release date
  • 2010