Stephen Kern

Time and Space in the Internet Age

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes how new technologies transformed life and thought between two periods, 1880-1920 and 1980-2020, with a focus on temporal experiences of past, present, future and the spatial experiences of form, distance, and direction.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Modern History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781032739809
• ISBN-10: 1032739800
• Artikelnr.: 70150360

Autorenporträt

Stephen Kern is an Honorary Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. He has authored The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 ; The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns; A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought; and The Modernist Novel: A Critical Introduction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. THE NATURE OF TIME: Number
Texture
Order 2. PAST: Length
Force
Value
Retrieval 3. PRESENT: Spatially Expanded Present
Temporally Lengthened Present
Cognitively Thickened Present 4. FUTURE: Weather Forecasting
Genetic Disease
Climate Change
The End of the Universe
The Clock of the Long Now 5. PACE: Travel
Communication
Production
Lifestyle 6. THE NATURE OF SPACE: Number
Texture
Order 7. FORM: Self
Nation 8. DISTANCE: Sociology
Geopolitics
Economics
Social Life
Environment 9. DIRECTION: East-West Axis
The Cold War
North-South Axis
Up-Down Axis Conclusion