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Author: Thomas Hylland Eriksen
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ISBN: 074531774X
Publisher: Pluto Press
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Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age

The turn of the millennium is characterized by exponential growth in everything related to communication - from the internet and email to air traffic. Search and download computer ebooks Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age for free.
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Tyranny of the Moment deals with some of the most perplexing paradoxes of this new information age. Who would have expected that apparently time-saving 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. Since we are theoretically 'online' 24 hours a day, we must fight for the right to be unavailable - the right to live and thin

Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age

Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age - Thomas Hylland Eriksen

The turn of the millennium is characterized by exponential growth in everything related to communication - from the Internet and email to air travel. 'The Tyranny of the Moment' deals with some of 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?Thomas Eriksen argues that slow time - private periods where we are able to think and correspond coherently without interruption - is now one o

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Tyranny of the Moment deals with some of the most perplexing paradoxes of this new information age
Since we are theoretically 'online' 24 hours a day, we must fight for the right to be unavailable - the right to live and thin