Heather Menzies

No Time (eBook, ePUB)

Stress and the Crisis of Modern Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

These days, we all have too much to do and too little time. This book is about how technology has changed our lives and what we can do about it.

What happened to the promise that technology would give us more leisure time? Instead, we are working harder and for longer hours than we did fifteen years ago, squeezed and scattered and stressed to the point of burnout. We are trying to cope with a constantly accelerating pace brought about by cutbacks and restructuring, but also by computers and cell phones that, in their super-efficient dispatch of data, text and voice messages and the like, let us do more things faster than ever before.

Yet somewhere between the multi-tasking pace and the sea of data divorced from real life, we're losing touch with ourselves and with each other. We're even losing a sense of how to tell when things go wrong and how to take action when they do. We need to take back our lives, and renew the humanity of our social institutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781926685748
• Artikelnr.: 38368727

Autorenporträt

Heather Menzies is an award-winning writer and scholar. She is an adjunct professor (School of Canadian Studies and Women's Studies) and a sessional lecturer at Carleton University, Ottawa, and has taught at other Canadian universities (McGill, Simon Fraser and Wilfrid Laurier). She is a mother, a gardener, a peace and social-justice activist, a video producer and the author of seven books, including the 1996 best seller, Whose Brave New World? Menzies has published chapters in 13 books, including Northern Wild: Best Contemporary Canadian Nature Writing and Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution. She also has contributed articles to international and North American journals and newspapers.