The Speed Complex: Socio-Technical and Human Dimensions

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Our obsession with speed is deeply entrenched in our cultures, politics and interaction with technology.

Critically appraising the existing literature, this book examines the sociological treatments of speed. In a book that will be invaluable to both graduate students and scholars, Vostal deftly unpacks the notion as a life experience, the role it plays in reproducing capitalism and as a defining characteristic of modernity, bringing together areas that do not normally connect and enabling new cross-cutting perspectives.

Shedding light on 21st century challenges, this is an excellent primer on speed and a unique map of its multiple socio-technical and human dimensions.

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Filip Vostal is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.