Tyranny of the Moment

Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age

Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2001
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-1775-5 (ISBN)

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A study of the universal dilemma of the scarcity of time

The turn of the millennium is characterised by exponential growth in everything related to communication – from the internet and email to air traffic. Tyranny of the Moment deals with the most perplexing paradoxes of this new information age.

Who would have expected that apparently timesaving technology results in time being scarcer than ever? And has this seemingly limitless access to information led to confusion rather than enlightenment?

Eriksen argues that slow time – private periods where we are able to think and correspond without interruption – is now one of the most precious resources we have.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and former President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). He is the author of numerous classics of anthropology, including Small Places, Large Issues, Ethnicity and Nationalism and What is Anthropology?

Preface

Introduction: Mind the Gap!

2. Information Culture, Information Cult

3. The Time of the Book, the Clock and Money

4. Speed

5. Exponential Growth

6. Stacking

7. The Lego Brick Syndrome

8. The Pleasures of Slow Time

Sources

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.8.2001
Zusatzinfo	10 b&w figures
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 215 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7453-1775-8 / 0745317758
ISBN-13	978-0-7453-1775-5 / 9780745317755
Zustand	Neuware