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The Politics of Speed - Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World (Paperback, New)
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The Politics of Speed - Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World (Paperback, New)
Series: Interventions
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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 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 speed, and investigates key issue areas
- including democratic governance, warfare, capitalism,
globalization and transnational activism - to uncover the ways in
which acceleration is shaping the world. The book uses contemporary
political theory (especially the works of Deleuze and Guattari) to
develop an ontological account of speed, showing how its effects
are frequently far more complex and surprising than we might
expect. The result is an attempt to craft a way of engaging with
global acceleration that might help avoid the dangers of speed,
while embracing the possibilities it provides us with to produce a
safer, more egalitarian, democratic and pluralistic world.
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