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

New
Illustrated
2001
$36.07

The turn of the millennium is characterised by exponential growth in everything related to communication - from the internet and email to air traffic. Tyranny of the Moment deals with 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?

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.

Synopsis

The turn of the millennium is characterised by exponential growth in everything related to communication - from the internet and email to air traffic. Tyranny of the Moment deals with 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?

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.

$36.07

Quantity

10 in stock

More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 192
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 20 Aug 2001
ISBN 10: 074531774X
ISBN 13: 9780745317748

Media Reviews

'I found myself both charmed and challenged. The subject is an important one, and Thomas Hylland Eriksen handles it with style, a light touch, and many amiable provocations' -- Todd Gitlin, Professor of Culture, Journalism and Sociology, New York University

Author Bio

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and former President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He is the author of numerous classics of anthropology, including Small Places, Large Issues - 4th Edition (Pluto, 2015) and What is Anthropology? - 2nd Edition (Pluto, 2017).