Tempo e espaço na contemporaneidade: uma análise a partir de uma revista popular de negócios

Abstract

Humanity has undergone constant changes that relate to the ways people experience time -more and more accelerated -and space -more and more flexible. This article is a result of an exploratory study with a qualitative focus that seeks to comprehend how the time-space compression operates. For the analysis, indicators of the ways people work and live in the contemporaneity were used, extracted from articles published by a popular business magazine from July, 2005 to June, 2006. Concepts developed by Bauman, Harvey and Virilio were very useful for the analysis of the object of the present study. Among the results observed, we highlight the intense use of information technologies, which contribute to the development of different perceptions, such as being constantly connected and the non-existence of barriers. The distinction between time and space for work and time and space for the family/leisure is weakened. The ways of working in the contemporaneity compel people to adopt auto-management patterns to deal with the constant flux. Time-space compression seems to provoke different impressions, sufferings and (un)certainties.

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“…In this period, traditions have been gradually abandoned, and the past has been repudiated for the establishment of the modern spirit (Bauman, 2007). Several factors have turned the era of spatiotemporal compression into a period that gives rise to different impressions, sufferings, and uncertainties (Frezza, Grisci, & Kessler, 2009). They include the influence of information and communication technologies, which have given subjects the notion that they are always connected anytime and anywhere; the fragility of the boundaries between time and the workspace and time and family space/leisure; and the self-management standards imposed by the contemporary mode of working.…”

“…In this sense, Dejours (1996) argues that, in such cases, the consequences of suffering externalize the space in which the individual is inserted, thus reflecting in all spheres of their lives. Along these lines, the process of dissolving the boundaries between working and personal time begins (Frezza et al, 2009;.…”