The Politics of Speed: Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World - Couverture rigide

Glezos, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415782619 ISBN 13 : 9780415782616

Editeur : Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Everyone agrees that the world is accelerating. With advances in communication, transportation and information processing technologies, it is clear that the pace of events in global politics is speeding up at an alarming rate. The implications of this new speed however, continue to be a significant source of debate. Will acceleration lead to a more interconnected, productive, peaceful, and humane world; or a nightmarish descent into ecological devastation, economic exploitation and increasingly violent warfare?

The Politics of Speed attempts to map the contours of the new global space of speed, and investigates key issue areas – including democratic governance, warfare, capitalism, globalization and transnational activism – to uncover the ways in which acceleration is shaping the world. The book uses contemporary political theory (especially the works of Deleuze and Guattari) to develop an ontological account of speed, showing how its effects are frequently far more complex and surprising than we might expect. The result is an attempt to craft a way of engaging with global acceleration that might help avoid the dangers of speed, while embracing the possibilities it provides us with to produce a safer, more egalitarian, democratic and pluralistic world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Simon Glezos is a limited term senior instructor at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415782619
• ISBN 13: 9780415782616
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible