Empires Of Speed

Author : Robert Hassan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004175907

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Empires of Speed by Robert Hassan Pdf

The beginning of the 21st century is witnessing the emergence of a social, political and technological revolution in networked computing. We now live in a networked society, but it functions and develops at such an accelerating rate that it becomes increasingly difficult to adequately understand the nature of this radical society. "Empires of Speed" is the first book to analyse the far-reaching transformations of speed-filled everyday life. In a compelling study Hassan shows that we are leaving behind a modern world based upon the time of the clock, and are entering a new and volatile phase where an accelerating network time poses fundamental economic and political challenges in our postmodern world, challenges we barely comprehend and are thus woefully unprepared for.

Author : Jonathan Chambers,Stephannie S. Gearhart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351625388

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Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education by Jonathan Chambers,Stephannie S. Gearhart Pdf

A collection of essays written by arts and humanities scholars across disciplines, this book argues that higher education has been compromised by its uncritical acceptance of our culture’s standards of productivity, busyness, and speed. Inspired by the Slow Movement, contributors explain how and why university culture has come to value productivity over contemplation and rapidity over slowness. Chapter authors argue that the arts and humanities offer a cogent critique of fast culture in higher education, and reframe the discussion of the value of their fields by emphasizing the dialectic between speed and slowness.

Author : Judy Wajcman,Nigel Dodd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198782858

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The Sociology of Speed by Judy Wajcman,Nigel Dodd Pdf

There is widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be. This work argues that popular and scholarly claims about acceleration gloss over the complex relationship of technology, speed and time.

Author : Miguel J. Romero,Mary Jo Iozzio
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532640315

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Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 6, Special Issue 2 by Miguel J. Romero,Mary Jo Iozzio Pdf

Engaging Disability Edited by Miguel J. Romero and Mary Jo Iozzio Preface: Engaging Disability Mary Jo Iozzio and Miguel J. Romero God Bends Over Backwards to Accommodate Humankind …While the Civil Rights Acts and the Americans with Disabilities Act Require [Only] the Minimum Mary Jo Iozzio On “And Vulnerable”: Catholic Social Thought and the Social Challenges of Cognitive Disability Matthew Gaudet From Universal Precautions to Universal Design: Disclosure of Concealable Disability in the Case of HIV Mary M. Doyle Roche Disability, the Healing of Infirmity, and the Theological Virtue of Hope: A Thomistic Approach Paul Gondreau Seventeenth-Century Casuistry Regarding Persons with Disabilities: Antonino Diana’s Tract “On the Mute, Deaf, and Blind” Julia A. Fleming Blessed Silence: Explorations in Christian Contemplation and Hearing Loss Jana Bennett Becoming Friends: Ethics in Friendship and in Doing Theology Lorraine Cuddeback The Slow Journey Towards Beatitude: Disability in L’Arche, and Staying Human in High-Speed Society Jason Reimer Greig The Goodness and Beauty of Our Fragile Flesh: Moral Theologians and Our Engagement With ‘Disability’ Miguel J. Romero

Author : Robert Hassan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004186859

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Empires of Speed by Robert Hassan Pdf

Explaining and comparing the rise and effects of the 'empires' of clock time and 'network time', Empires of Speed argues with power and clarity that our network society is hurtling fast through a volatile present into an increasingly precarious future.

Author : Mark Coeckelbergh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031179822

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Digital Technologies, Temporality, and the Politics of Co-Existence by Mark Coeckelbergh Pdf

Our digital existence is hurried and fast. We are tied to the present, or perhaps we are not present enough: immersed in digital social media and processes by artificial intelligence, we are hardly present to ourselves and to others, and feel alienated from nature. We are also made to fear climate change and the end of humanity. How can we live a good life and give meaning to our lives under these conditions? How can and should we co-exist today? Using process philosophy, narrative theory, and the concept of technoperformances, this book analyzes how digital technologies shape our relation to time and our existence, and discusses what this means in the light of climate change and new technologies such as AI. In dialogue with contemporary philosophy of technology and media theory and asking original questions about finding common times in what it calls the “Anthropochrone”, it proposes a conceptual framework that helps us to understand how we (should) exist and relate to time today.

Author : Enda Duffy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822392378

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The Speed Handbook by Enda Duffy Pdf

Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. The Speed Handbook is a virtuoso exploration of Huxley’s claim. Enda Duffy shows how the experience of speed has always been political and how it has affected nearly all aspects of modern culture. Primarily a result of the mass-produced automobile, the experience of speed became the quintessential way for individuals to experience modernity, to feel modernity in their bones. Duffy plunges full-throttle into speed’s “adrenaline aesthetics,” offering deft readings of works ranging from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, through J. G. Ballard’s Crash, to the cautionary consumerism of Ralph Nader. He describes how speed changed understandings of space, distance, chance, and violence; how the experience of speed was commodified in the dawning era of mass consumption; and how society was incited to abhor slowness and desire speed. He examines how people were trained by new media such as the cinema to see, hear, and sense speed, and how speed, demanded of the efficient assembly-line worker, was given back to that worker as the chief thrill of leisure. Assessing speed’s political implications, Duffy considers how speed pleasure was offered to citizens based on criteria including their ability to pay and their gender, and how speed quickly became something to be patrolled by governments. Drawing on novels, news reports, photography, advertising, and much more, Duffy provides a breakneck tour through the cultural dynamics of speed.

Author : Billie Melman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192558015

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Empires of Antiquities by Billie Melman Pdf

Empires of Antiquities is a history of the rediscovery of civilizations of the ancient Near East in the imperial order that evolved between the outbreak of the First World War and the 1950s. It explores the ways in which Near Eastern antiquity was redefined and experienced, becoming the subject of new regulation, new modes of knowledge, and international and local politics. A series of globally publicized spectacular archaeological discoveries in Iraq, Egypt, and Palestine, which the book follows, made antiquity visible, palpable and accessible as never before. The new uses of antiquity and its relations to modernity were inseparable from the emergence of the post-war world order, imperial collaboration and collisions, and national aspirations. Empires of Antiquities uniquely combines a history of the internationalization of a new "regime of archaeology" under the oversight of the League of Nations and its web of institutions, a history of British passions for Near Eastern antiquity, on-the-ground colonial mechanisms and nationalist claims on the past. It points to the centrality of the mandate system, particularly mandates classified A, in Mesopotamia/Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan, formerly governed by the Ottoman Empire, and of Egypt, in a new culture of antiquity. Drawing on an unusually wide range of archives in several countries, as well as on visual and material evidence, the book weaves together imperial, international, and local histories of institutions, people, ideas and objects and offers an entirely new interpretation of the history of archaeological discovery and its connections to empires and modernity.

Author : Mark Altaweel,Andrea Squitieri
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911576648

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Revolutionizing a World by Mark Altaweel,Andrea Squitieri Pdf

This book investigates the long-term continuity of large-scale states and empires, and its effect on the Near East’s social fabric, including the fundamental changes that occurred to major social institutions. Its geographical coverage spans, from east to west, modern-day Libya and Egypt to Central Asia, and from north to south, Anatolia to southern Arabia, incorporating modern-day Oman and Yemen. Its temporal coverage spans from the late eighth century BCE to the seventh century CE during the rise of Islam and collapse of the Sasanian Empire. The authors argue that the persistence of large states and empires starting in the eighth/seventh centuries BCE, which continued for many centuries, led to new socio-political structures and institutions emerging in the Near East. The primary processes that enabled this emergence were large-scale and long-distance movements, or population migrations. These patterns of social developments are analysed under different aspects: settlement patterns, urban structure, material culture, trade, governance, language spread and religion, all pointing at movement as the main catalyst for social change. This book’s argument is framed within a larger theoretical framework termed as ‘universalism’, a theory that explains many of the social transformations that happened to societies in the Near East, starting from the Neo-Assyrian period and continuing for centuries. Among other influences, the effects of these transformations are today manifested in modern languages, concepts of government, universal religions and monetized and globalized economies.

Author : Phillip E. Sims
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783468836

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Adventurous Empires by Phillip E. Sims Pdf

This is a story from a bygone age recalling the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built. Designed to a specification for Imperial Airways, then Britains national airline, it carried passengers and, more importantly, mail throughout the British Empire. The airliner offered luxurious travel for the privileged few, every journey being an adventure shared by passengers and crew.Short Brothers built 42 Empires at their factory in Rochester during the late 1930s. Imperial Airways were expanding their network to the furthermost outposts of the British Empire, whilst laying down the principles of scheduled airline operation.This is the tale of the realization of a dream and the efforts of those who made it possible. During World War II, the military Sunderland version became an icon.

Author : Christopher J. Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501323249

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Jet Lag by Christopher J. Lee Pdf

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Jet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being pitched against the time-leaping effects of modern aviation. But more than that, it is a situation that explains time, technology, and the human body. Jet lag epitomizes the accelerated world we live in. It makes the speed and discomfort of globalization tangible on a personal level. Tracing physiological, temporal, technological, and cultural meanings, Christopher J. Lee's Jet Lag ponders our intrinsic human limits in the face of modern innovation, revealing the latent costs of global cosmopolitanism today. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Author : Adrian Brisku
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474238540

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Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires by Adrian Brisku Pdf

Throughout the 'long 19th century', the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a similar vision for imperial state renewal, with the goal of avoiding revolution, decline and isolation within Europe. Adrian Brisku explores how this path of renewal and reform manifested itself: forging new laws and institutions, opening up the economy to the outside world, and entering the European political community of imperial states. Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires tackles the dilemma faced by both empires, namely how to bring about meaningful change without undermining the legal, political and economic status quo. The book offers a unique comparison of Ottoman and Russian politics of reform and their connection to the wider European politico-economic space.

Author : David P. Billington,David P. Billington Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781400849123

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Power, Speed, and Form by David P. Billington,David P. Billington Jr. Pdf

Power, Speed, and Form is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939—the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete. Beginning with Thomas Edison's system to generate and distribute electric power, the authors explain the Bell telephone, the oil refining processes of William Burton and Eugene Houdry, Henry Ford's Model T car and the response by General Motors, the Wright brothers' airplane, radio innovations from Marconi to Armstrong, Othmar Ammann's George Washington Bridge, the reinforced concrete structures of John Eastwood and Anton Tedesko, and in the 1930s, the Chrysler Airflow car and the Douglas DC-3 airplane. These innovations used simple numerical ideas, which the Billingtons integrate with short narrative accounts of each breakthrough—a unique and effective way to introduce engineering and how engineers think. The book shows how the best engineering exemplifies efficiency, economy and, where possible, elegance. With Power, Speed, and Form, educators, first-year engineering students, liberal arts students, and general readers now have, for the first time in one volume, an accessible and readable history of engineering achievements that were vital to America's development and that are still the foundations of modern life.

Author : Leon J. Wood
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725206922

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A Commentary on Daniel by Leon J. Wood Pdf

Author : Frisco Barton
Publisher : Frisco Barton
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Nlp Techniques: Influence People By Subliminal Persuasion, Speed Reading Analysis and Mind control (Break Bad Habits, Eliminate Anxiety Using Neurolinguistic Programming) by Frisco Barton Pdf

Do you want to rewire your brain so that you can be the best version of yourself? Do you want to be a person who exudes confidence? Do you want to walk into a room and immediately connect with anyone you see? Do you want to be more sociable and more emotionally stable? Do you want to become a better leader and a more effective communicator? Do you want to maximize your potential and become successful in all your endeavors? The majority of adults will at some point in their lives experienced a sense of ultimate confidence; this may have only lasted for seconds and could have been many years ago. The advantage of NLP is that it allows the person to capture this resource and create more of that state of confidence. You've probably already experienced this, and we'll cover more details and strategies on how to make these states even more accessible to you! Here Is A Preview Of What You Can Expect To Learn: A Brief History Of How NLP Came Into Being How To Tap Into The Unlimited Power Of Our Minds Phobias And Their Relationship With The Mind NLP Techniques That You Can Use To End Phobias How To Cure Agoraphobia Using Different Techniques Different NLP Techniques That Will Transform Your Life Forever Important Tips And Tricks To Follow When Using NLP To Improve Your Life And much, much more! I don't dare to lie to you by telling you that with my book you will become an expert in NLP, but you will surely understand the mechanisms and you can experiment with some basic techniques so that you can understand that NLP really works. I think it's the right gradient to start with. Are you ready ?