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Electronic Book

Author

Hassan, Robert, 1959-

Title Empires of speed [electronic resource] : time and the acceleration of politics and society / by Robert Hassan.

Imprint

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	254 p.
Series	Supplements to The study of time, 1843-7463 ; v. 4
	Supplements to The study of time ; v. 4.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Time -- Sociological aspects.
	Information society.
	Information technology -- Social aspects.
	Computers and civilization.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9789004175907 (harbdack : alk. paper)
	9004175903 (harbdack : alk. paper)