{"product_id":"9788787564144","title":"Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality","description":"\u003cp\u003eModern life is speeding-up, incessantly. Strange as it is, while the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless feels like we are running out of time. In all western societies alike, time-famine is rising and individuals report the impression that they have to run faster and faster each year - not in order to get somewhere, but just to stay in place! This book presents an analytic framework to identify the causes and effects of the various sped-up-processes which define modernity - and it develops a critical theory of late-modern temporality. Crucial for this is the idea that acceleration in the end leads to monstrous forms of alienation from time and space, from things and actions - and from self and others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aarhus University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059916718320,"sku":"9788787564144","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9788787564144_p0.jpg?v=1763750491","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9788787564144","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}