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Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age
 
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Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age (Paperback)

by Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Pluto Press (10 Aug 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 074531774X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0745317748
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 522,747 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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'While reading "Tyranny of the Moment," I found myself both charmed and challenged. The subject is an important one, and Thomas Hylland Eriksen handles it with style, a light touch, and many amiable provocations.' --Todd Gitlin

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The turn of the millennium is characterized by exponential growth in everything related to communication - from the Internet and e-mail to air traffic. "The Tyranny of the Moment" deals with some of the most perplexing paradoxes of this new information age. Who would have expected that apparently time-saving technology results in time being scarcer than ever? And has this seemingly limitless access to information led to confusion rather than enlightenment? Thomas Eriksen argues that slow time - private periods where we are able to think and correspond coherently without interruption - is now one of the most precious resources that we have, and it is becoming a major political issue. Since we are now theoretically "online" 24 hours a day, we must fight for the right to be unavailable - the right to live and think more slowly. It is not only that working hours have become longer - Eriksen also shows how the logic of this new information technology has, in the space of just a few years, permeated every area of our lives. This is equally true for those living in poorer parts of the globe usually depicted as outside the reaches of the information age, as well as those in the West. Exploring phenomena such as the world wide web, wap telephones, multi-channel television and e-mail, "The Tyranny of the Moment" examines this new, non-linear and fragmented way of communicating to reveal the effect is has on working conditions in the new economy, changes in family life and, ultimately, personal identity. Eriksen argues that a culture lacking a sense of its past, and therefore of its future, is effectively static. Although solutions are suggested, he demonstrates that there is no easy way out.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing book about life the 'always available way', 21 Sep 2001
Really good book. The author takes a scientific approach to the fact that life seems to become more and more busy, and how effectiveness really makes us less free to do the things that we would really like to do. The book is written in an easy language, and even if it is a scientific book written by a professor in social antropolgy it is easily comprehensible.

As a Norwegian I read this book first in Norwegian, and was really happy to see that it is available also in English.

A must read for any dot-com worker with a flooding inbox and too few hours awake.

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