{"resolved":true,"match_type":"uuid","source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","requested_by":"printed_page","book":{"source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","uuid":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","normalized_title":"pressedfortimetheaccelerationoflifeindigitalcapitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","isbns":["9780226196473","9780226196503"],"parsed":true,"ai_readable":true,"document_type":"book","page_count":228,"navigation_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/title/Pressed%20for%20Time%20The%20Acceleration%20of%20Life%20in%20Digital%20Capitalism","fixed_page_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","path_api_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","read_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","page_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page","search_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/search"},"page":{"printed_page":34,"pdf_page":46,"physical_index":46,"physical_index_base":0,"printed_page_status":"recognized","page_sha256":"6028565c7519f52124425a810b986fd4d315a55e0d6ffc9fcfbd75aad32c7993"},"chapter":"Pressed for Time","content":"We experience the common feeling of being rushed as a personal condition that requires individual solutions. The natural reaction is to look to ever-faster technologies to save time. We are then mystified by the paradox of having more and better technologies and still feeling harried. It is easy to suppose that there is a temporal logic in digital technologies that is pushing us ever faster. Reifying technologies in this way makes us passive respondents to the instantaneous time of digitalization. Yet, as I will go on to demonstrate, the machines we have reflect our society and we are complicit in their design and implementation. Objects only take on their significance by way of our recurrent use of them. That is why there is no direct relationship between time saved and time gained.\n\nOur newfound need for seamless connectivity, for example, can only be understood within the extended network of sociomaterial relations through which ICTs emerge and are stabilized as an ongoing practice. Digital technologies not only speed up information and communication but also open up wholly new domains of exchange, service, and entertainment. The range of options seems to increase in inverse proportion to our capacity to realize them. For Rosa, the acceleration cycle is selfpropelling, as “the promise of acceleration never is fulfilled, for the very same techniques, methods, and inventions that allow for an accelerated realization of options simultaneously increase the number of options . . . at an exponential rate.”43 In my view, however, the way we choose to integrate such new activities and artifacts into our everyday lives depends upon the individual biographies and collective histories of both ourselves and machines.\n\nTime is both intimate and social. It is the result of our collective entanglement with the material world. As such, it is infused with power relations, such as those of gender, class, and race, which are increasingly mediated by digital technologies. Our structural location and multiple identities provide us with diferential technical resources and skills that alleviate or aggravate, increase or reduce, social distinctions and distances between us. Theories of the high-speed society mistakenly assume that acceleration is occurring across all sectors of society and all dimensions of life. But if disparate groups of people relate to both time and technology in diverse ways, then we need to explore how and why this is so. How we appropriate, adapt, and actively shape digital technologies to create new timescapes is an empirical question that I probe in the course of this book. By doing this, I hope to resolve the time-pressure paradox.\n\nChapter One\n\n34","previous_page":33,"next_page":35}