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...

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 world; or a nightmarish descent into ecological devastation, economic exploitation and increasingly violent warfare? The Politics of Speed attempts to map the contours of the new global space of...