Published
Jun 1, 2024Page count
128 pagesISBN
978-1529221312Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jun 1, 2024Page count
128 pagesISBN
978-1529221329Dimensions
203 x 127 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Our obsession with speed is deeply entrenched in our cultures, politics and interaction with technology.
Critically appraising the existing literature, this book examines the sociological treatments of speed. In a book that will be invaluable to both graduate students and scholars, Vostal deftly unpacks the notion as a life experience, the role it plays in reproducing capitalism and as a defining characteristic of modernity, bringing together areas that do not normally connect and enabling new cross-cutting perspectives.
Shedding light on 21st century challenges, this is an excellent primer on speed and a unique ‘map’ of its multiple socio-technical and human dimensions.
Filip Vostal is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Introduction: Why Speed? What Speed?
Speeds Lived: Between Phenomenological and Visceral Experiences
Systemic Speeds: Modernity, Power, Capitalism
Contemporary Frequencies of Socio-Technical Life
