High-Speed Society - Social Acceleration, Power and Modernity

Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Acknowledgments\n......Page 10
Introduction\n......Page 12
Part 1. Classical Perspectives on Social Acceleration\n......Page 42
1. A Law of Acceleration\n......Page 44
2. The Pace of Life and the Money Economy\n......Page 52
3. The New Religion-Morality of Speed\n......Page 68
4. The Mania for Motion and Speed\n......Page 72
5. The Motorized Legislator\n......Page 76
Part 2. High-Speed Society: Theoretical Foundations\n......Page 86
6. Social Acceleration: Ethical and Political Consequences\nof a Desynchronized High-Speed Society\n......Page 88
7. Is There an Acceleration of History?\n......Page 124
8. The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Globalizing Capital and\nTheir Impact on State Power and Democracy\n......Page 146
9. The Contraction of the Present\n......Page 170
10. Speeding Up and Slowing Down\n......Page 190
Part 3. High-Speed Society: Political Consequences?......Page 210
11. The State of Emergency\n......Page 212
12. The Nihilism of Speed: On the Work of\nPaul Virilio\n......Page 226
13. Temporal Rhythms and Military Force:\nAcceleration, Deceleration, and War\n......Page 254
14. Speed, Concentric Cultures, and\nCosmopolitanism\n......Page 272
15. Citizenship and Speed\n......Page 298
List of Contributors\n......Page 318
Index\n......Page 320