1st Edition
The Politics of Speed Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World
By Simon Glezos
Copyright 2012
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Everyone agrees that the world is accelerating. With advances in communication, transportation and information processing technologies, it is clear that the pace of events in global politics is speeding up at an alarming rate. The implications of this new speed however, continue to be a significant source of debate. Will acceleration lead to a more interconnected, productive, peaceful, and humane... Read more
Introduction. Fear of a Fast Planet 1. The Ticking Bomb: Speed, Democracy and the Politics of the Future 2. The Quick and the Dead: State and Nomad War Machines 3. The Acceleration of Inertia: Towards a Political Economy of Speed 4. Regimes of (Im)mobility: Towards an International Political Economy of Speed 5. ‘A world in which many worlds fit: On Rhizomatic Cosmopolitanism Conclusion. 'We Have Never Been Territorial': Fear and Hope in an Accelerating World
Biography
Simon Glezos is a limited term senior instructor at the University of Victoria, Canada.
