The Age of Distraction: Reading, Writing, and Politics in a High-Speed Networked Economy
Autor Robert Hassanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 sep 2017
Robert Hassan offers a perspective permeated by a sense of history, beginning with the invention of writing and the development of the skill of reading. Together with technological developments, these provide a unique view of the trajectory of modernity into late-modernity, and illustrate how the arc of progress has transformed. New modes of time, technology, and reading and writing are helping create a faster world where we know less about more and forget what we know evermore quickly.
What is the "time" of a thought? Is it possible to measure thinking? Can we consider knowledge or information, or reading and writing, as having temporal "rhythms"? These are questions Hassan tries to answer. So unfamiliar are we to thinking in such terms that they sound impossible. To a significant degree, time, thinking, and many forms of knowledge are the fruits of subjective experience. We connect experiences at superficial levels, where people have different experiences that may be objectively the same, but our interpretations will always diverge in respect of the "reality" we confront. This intersection of philosophy and communication takes the reader into new realms of analysis.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138515338
ISBN-10: 1138515337
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1138515337
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Preface 1 This Other Temporality 2 The Ghost in the Machine 3 Everything Nowadays is Ultra 4 We Are All Still Mesopotamian 5 The Chronic Distraction of Everyday Life 6 Canon 7 Considerations on the Prospects for Political Change Bibliography Index
Descriere
Connections between time, technology, and the processes of reading and writing make clear the links between experiences of what appear to be quite different phenomena