7 Jonathan Gershuny and Kimberly Fisher calculate the figure of five hundred minutes as consistent across the developed world from 1961 to 2006. See “Exploit and Industry: Why Work Time Will Not Disappear for Our Grandchildren” (paper presented at The Value of Time: Addressing Social Inequalities: 35th IATUR Conference on Time Use Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 7–10, 2013).
8 See Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), and John Urry, Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century (London: Routledge, 2000) respectively, detailed in chapter 1.
Chapter One
1 Philipp Hildebrand, vice-chairman of BlackRock, goes on to say that he has meditated for seven years and that “in the financial world, it is a must” (“Zen and the Art of Management,” Financial Times, September 17, 2013).
2 Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), uses the term “timeless time”; David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), uses “time-space compression”; Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990), uses “time-space distanciation”; John Urry, Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century (London: Routledge, 2000), uses “instantaneous time”; Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics: Second Edition (New York: Semiotext[e], 1986), uses “chronoscopic time”; Robert Hassan, Empires of Speed: Time and the Acceleration of Politics and Society (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2009), uses “network time”; and Michel Mafesoli, L’instant eternal (Paris: La Table Ronde, 2003), uses “pointillist time.” See also Helga Nowotny, Time: The Modern and Postmodern Experience (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005), and various writings by Barbara Adam, such as Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995); “Reflexive Modernization Temporalized,” Theory, Culture & Society 20, no. 2 (2003): 59–78; Time (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004).
3 Hartmut Rosa has developed his thesis that social acceleration is the constitutive trait of post- or late modernity in a range of impressive publications, such as “Social Acceleration: Ethical and Political Consequences of a Desynchronized High-Speed Society,” Constellations 10, no. 1 (2003): 3–33 (see esp. p. 28); Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).
4 Rosa, “Social Acceleration,” 10.
5 Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 240. See also Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of the Typographic Man (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962).
6 Adam, “Reflexive Modernization Temporalized,” 67.
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