1st Edition
The Age of Distraction Reading, Writing, and Politics in a High-Speed Networked Economy
By Robert Hassan
Copyright 2012
236 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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Connections between time, technology, and the processes of reading and writing make clear the links between experiences of what appear to be quite different phenomena. Reading and writing have functioned together in a particular way to build the world as we have known it for three thousand years. These interacting processes have now been transformed at their core and are building a different... Read more
Preface 1 This Other Temporality 2 The Ghost in the Machine 3 Everything Nowadays is Ultra 4 We Are All Still Mesopotamian 5 The Chronic Distraction of Everyday Life 6 Canon 7 Considerations on the Prospects for Political Change Bibliography Index
Biography
Robert Hassan
