Occupy Time - Technoculture, Immediacy and Resistance After Occupy Wall Street

Zusatztext "Profound and challenging." - Michael J. Shapiro! Professor of Political Science! University of Hawaii! USA Informationen zum Autor Jason Adams is Professor of Communication at Grand Valley State University, USA, following a visiting position at Williams College, USA. He received a doctorate in Media & Communication from European Graduate School, Switzerland, and a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Hawaii, USA. His most recent book is the co-edited volume Deleuze and Race (2013). Klappentext While secondary texts on Paul Virilio typically see no way out of the tempo- and techno-dystopia he articulates, Occupy Time engages the events of Occupy Wall Street to fix attention on what such readings circumvent: Virilio's elusive theory of resistance. "Profound and challenging." - Michael J. Shapiro, Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii, USA Zusammenfassung While secondary texts on Paul Virilio typically see no way out of the tempo- and techno-dystopia he articulates! Occupy Time engages the events of Occupy Wall Street to fix attention on what such readings circumvent: Virilio's elusive theory of resistance. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Kairopolitics: The Politics of Realtime 2. Thought-Time: Immediacy and Live Theory 3. Control-Time: Immediacy and Constant Capitalism 4. Defense-Time: Immediacy and Realtime Resistance

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• Authors: J Adams, J. Adams, Jason M. Adams, ADAMS JASON M
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2013
• EAN: 9781137275585
• ISBN: 978-1-137-27558-5
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Pivot
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europa, C, Europe, European Politics, Political Science, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, social and political philosophy, Terrorism, armed struggle, Politics and government, Social Philosophy, Terrorism, Political science and theory, Political Violence, Social sciences—Philosophy, Europe—Politics and government, Palgrave Political Science Collection, Terrorism and Political Violence