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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