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Why, surrounded by screens and smart devices, we feel a deep connection to the analog-vinyl records, fountain pens, Kodak film, and other nondigital tools.We're surrounded by screens, our music comes in the form of digital files, we tap words into a notes app. Why do we still crave the "realness" of analog, seeking out vinyl records, fountain pens, cameras with film? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Robert Hassan exp...

David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity rationalised capitalism's transformation during an extraordinary year: 1989. It gave theoretical expression to a material and cultural reality that was just then getting properly started - globalisation and postmodernity - whilst highlighting the geo-spatial limits to accumulation imposed by our planet.However this landmark publication, author Robert Hassan argues, did not address the arrival of di...

Author Robert Hassan believes we are trapped in a digital prison of constant distraction. In Uncontained, he books a passage on a container ship and spends five weeks travelling from Melbourne to Singapore without digital distractions -- disconnected, and essentially alone.In this space of isolation and reflection, he is able to reconnect with lost memories and interrogate the lived experience of time.Uncontained is a personal exploration of t...

Since the late-1980s the rise of the Internet and the emergence of the Networked Society have led to a rapid and profound transformation of everyday life. In Philosophy of Media, Hassan and Sutherland explore the philosophical and technological trajectory of media from Classical Greece until today, casting a new and revealing light upon the global media condition. Key topics include the mediation of politics, the question of objectivity and te...

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24/7" is the first collection of essays dealing with the nature and our experience of temporality in the network society.

24/7" is the first collection of essays dealing with the nature and our experience of temporality in the network society.

In this groundbreaking book, media and time theorist Robert Hassan looks at the effects of the nexus between neoliberal globalization and the information technology revolution upon the production and dissemination of knowledge in technologically advanced societies. This nexus has created what Hassan calls an «information ecology», an environment that affects the individual, culture and society in the same dialectical ways as the natural and bu...

What is the network society?What effects does it have upon media, culture and politics?What are the competing forces in the network society, and how are they reshaping the world?The rise of the network society - the suffusion of much of the economy, culture and society with digital interconnectivity - is a development of immense significance. In this innovative book, Robert Hassan unpacks the dynamics of this new information order and shows ho...

What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of 'connectivity' and 'efficiency' constituted a break with the old ways. But other thinkers viewed it more in terms of the recurr...

The study of new media opens up some of the most fascinating issues in contemporary culture: questions of ownership and control over information and cultural goods, the changing experience of space and time, the political consequences of new communication technologies, and the power of users and consumers to disrupt established economic and business models. The New Media Theory Reader brings together key readings on new media - what it is, whe...

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Explaining and comparing the rise and effects of the 'empires' of clock time and 'network time', Empires of Speed argues with power and clarity that our network society is hurtling fast through a volatile present into an increasingly precarious future.

What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of 'connectivity' and 'efficiency' constituted a break with the old ways. But other thinkers viewed it more in terms of the recurr...

The study of new media opens up some of the most fascinating issues in contemporary culture: questions of ownership and control over information and cultural goods, the changing experience of space and time, the political consequences of new communication technologies, and the power of users and consumers to disrupt established economic and business models. The New Media Theory Reader brings together key readings on new media - what it is, whe...