The Politics of Speed : Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World

ISBN-13: 9780415782616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 224 str.

Simon Glezos

Opis

The Politics of Speed engages with the struggles over speed in diverse issue areas, including democratic governance, warfare, capitalism, globalization, and cosmopolitanism and transnational activism and, though Deleuze and Guattari are the primary theoretical influences, employs a diverse theoretical canon of both classical (Bergson, Nietzsche, Marx, Schumpeter and Kant, ) as well as contemporary writers (David Harvey, Paul Virilio, Sheldon Wolin, William Scheuerman, Aiwha Ong, Martha Nussbaum, Wendy Brown and Richard Rorty). However, despite this diversity of theoretical and empirical material, what draws them all together is the attempt to understand how politics both shapes, and is shaped by, speed

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Simon Glezos is a limited term senior instructor at the University of Victoria, Canada.