Empires of Speed

Hassan, Robert

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004175907.i-254

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“…And with that is also valorized the subject of speed as being the subject of modernity. Terms such as "dromology" (Virilio, 1986), "accelerated culture" (Readhead, 2004), "fast capitalism" (Agger, 1989), "hypermodern times" (Lipovetsky, 2005), "culture of speed" (Tomilson, 2007), and "empire of speed" (Hassan, 2009) indicate how media and cultural scholars regard speed as an index of modern existence. Speediness of a media object or mediated environment, in such views, signals the existence of a telematically and electronically sped up subjectivity (in relation to an earlier slower mediated subject).…”

Section: Speed and Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

When postcolonial studies meets media studies

Shome

2016

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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This essay addresses (1) how postcolonial studies might inform and enrich media studies, especially as the latter is situated in the Communication discipline, and (2) how media studies may productively expand the terrain postcolonial studies, that thus far has been dominated by the fields of Literature and Comparative Literature. Focusing on, and challenging, issues such as the North Atlantic temporal logics that inform the received history of media studies, as well as contesting the narrow boundaries of literary studies for engaging in contemporary postcolonial media/ted cultures, this essay attempts to argue for the importance of postcolonial media studies. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Speed and Mediamentioning

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When postcolonial studies meets media studies

Shome

2016

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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“…There are many countries in which courts have relied on the principle, notion or objective of sustainable development: for instance Brazil, 116 Argentina, 117 New Zealand 118 and Pakistan. 119 There is particular merit in discussing briefly the recent judgment by a Dutch court in the Urgenda case. This case shows how the principle of sustainable development can influence judicial reasoning on the issue of standing in a case where international environmental law -the UNFCCC, in this case -applies.…”

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The growing significance of the principle of sustainable development as a legal norm

Verschuuren¹

2016

Research Handbook on Fundamental Concepts of Environmental Law

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The growing significance of the principle of sustainable development as a legal norm. In D. Fisher (Ed.), Research Handbook on Fundamental Concepts of Environmental Law (pp. 276-305). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.-Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research-You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain-You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright, please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.

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“…80 For Hassan, in neoliberalism "anything like a long-term future seems to be almost incomprehensible." 81 Virilio similarly claims, "If marriage has become a precarious institution today, this is because newly-weds reject the abominable idea of growing old together, or alternatively, because the immediacy of the present world prevents them from believing in any kind of lasting future." 82 The present-focused time-sense characteristic of neoliberalism can, I believe, at least partly explain why even those higher-income workers who could inhabit the neoliberal subjectivity of the well-managed 401(k) employee-investor fail to do so fully.…”

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Neoliberal Temporality: Time-Sense and the Shift from Pensions to 401(k)s

Hardin¹

2014

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The decline of traditional pensions and the rise of individualized retirement accounts such as 401(k)s can be read as a neoliberal program of transferring risk and responsibility for providing retirement income from employers to workers. Subsequent to this shift, American workers are facing a “retirement savings crisis.” While the stagnation of incomes in the United States has certainly contributed to this crisis, I argue that the specific temporality of 401(k) investing also plays a role. Drawing on the work of John Clarke, E. P. Thompson, and Paul Virilio, I argue that the neoliberal temporality of 401(k) investing conditions a new “time-sense” in workers-turned-employee-investors that privileges the present over the future. This present-focused time-sense contradicts the future orientation required for retirement investing.

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Empires of Speed

Cited by 113 publications

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When postcolonial studies meets media studies

When postcolonial studies meets media studies

The growing significance of the principle of sustainable development as a legal norm

Neoliberal Temporality: Time-Sense and the Shift from Pensions to 401(k)s

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