The Speed of Collapse: The Space-Time Dimensions of Capitalism’s First Great Crisis of the 21st Century

Hassan, Robert

doi:10.1177/0896920510380946

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“…‘The tension between fixity and mobility becomes a crisis when there are impediments to capital accumulation after particular phases of intense development’. Hassan (2011: 389) similarly draws on Harvey to refer to capitalism's long‐running relationship with spatial expansion in which the ‘capitalist must always be on the move, seeking new markets, seeking new sources of raw material and cheaper labour’. Hassan (2011: 389) observes that space and time must remain dominant to capitalism's narrative and trajectory.…”

Section: Space‐time Discourses and Globalisationmentioning

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Temporality, space and technology: time‐space discourses of call centres

Ibrahim

2012

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Section: Space‐time Discourses and Globalisationmentioning

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Temporality, space and technology: time‐space discourses of call centres

Ibrahim

2012

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“…Favored by those who seek to protect and speak on behalf of the environment, their activities and objectives encompass a range of positions that aim to strike a balance between the demands of human life and the well-being of the environment for present and future generations (although significant philosophical differences exist over where the ‘right’ balance is to be found between human and non-human interests) (Curry, 2011). Pro-environmental attitudes also confront the instrumentality and time–space compression of global capitalism through an emphasis on the ‘cosmological’ or ‘glacial’ time of the natural world, thereby undercutting the imperatives of short-term political cycles and the demands of real-time financial markets (Hassan, 2011; Lash and Urry, 1994; McAfee, 1999).…”

Section: Mediatized Environmental Conflictmentioning

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Theorizing the enactment of mediatized environmental conflict

Hutchins

Lester

2015

International Communication Gazette

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Contemporary 'mediatized environmental conflict' involves complex interactions between (i) activist strategies and campaigns, (ii) journalism practices and news reporting, (iii) formal politics and decision-making processes, and (iv) industry activities and trade. This article theorizes how these interactions occur, drawing on evidence produced by a nine-year period of investigation into environmental media practices, content and technologies. Indicative of power dynamics in a globalized world, mediatized environmental conflict is enacted by the events and negotiations that occur at the 'switching points' between the four identified spheres of action. The conflicting messages, representations, debates, and practices that dynamically constitute these switching points are how environmental conflicts are contested, bringing together interlocking networks of media, political, and economic power. These networks traverse the local, national, and transnational in varying degrees depending on the particular issue or site in question. The groups and decision-makers who exercise greatest influence in the midst of conflict are those able to determine what is made visible to opponents and wider publics, meaning that both 'mediated visibility' and 'invisibility' are important strategic resources in battles over the environment conducted in media saturated social worlds.

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“…Intersecting global information and financial flows have reached speeds that are difficult to comprehend and control over the past 30 years (Strange 1986;Hassan 2011). The repeated structural convulsions of the global economy -Black Monday in 1987, Black Wednesday in 1992, the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the tech-wreck of the early 2000s, the onset of the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2007, and the flash crash of 2010 -are evidence of the highspeed 'accidents' produced by the capitalist system that impact upon citizens and employees across the globe (Virilio 2007;Cottle 2011).…”

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Broadband transformation through improved support systems

Pavlovski¹

2011

TJA

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The poor Quality of Service experienced by almost 200,000 consumers using Australian telecommunications services over the past year was starkly highlighted shortly before this November 2011 edition of TJA was 'put to press'.The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman's 2011 Annual Report, released on 7 November, revealed that the TIO had received 197,662 new customer complaints in 2010-11 -an astonishing 18% more than in the previous, equally shocking, year.The TIO Report 'attributes the rise to mobile phone service faults and increased smart phones use. […] More than half the new complaints received by the TIO (over 112,000) were about mobile phone services, an increase of 51 per cent from the previous year.[…] The most common mobile phone complaint issue was about service faults, with 56,475 new complaints made to the TIO, a 180 per cent increase. Consumers were most concerned about poor mobile coverage and service drop-outs.'Looking back, in response to the horror statistics in the TIO's previous Annual Report (2010), Teresa Corbin of the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) had called on the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to impose penalties on telecommunications companies with poor customer service. That was in February 2011.In response to the 2010 TIO Report, the industry's supply-side peak body, the Communications Alliance, worked for 12 months and on 25 October 2011 released a draft Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) code that the industry organisation says 'will reduce bill shock and provide better information to consumers'. This code aims to avoid in future the more generic abuses of pricing, billing and advertising highlighted in the TIO's 2010 Report, but does not address the network service faults that have grown significantly during the same period.On 8 September ACMA released its 'Reconnecting the Customer' report, the result of an 18 month inquiry into ways of dealing with telecommunications customer complaints. It concentrates on 'five substantive changes to make buying and using a mobile phone or Internet service much simpler', and its strategy was to formally invite 'the industry' to incorporate the following changes to its Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) code by February 2012:1. Clearer pricing information in advertisements, allowing consumers to more easily compare services 2. Improved and more consistent pre-sale information about plans 3. Developing meaningful performance metrics which allow consumers to compare providers 4. Tools for consumers to monitor usage and expenditure Better complaints-handling by providers UNACCEPTABLE NETWORK QUALITY OF SERVICE WHY INDUSTRY SELF REGULATION IS NOT WORKINGIt is noteworthy that none of these recommendations deal explicitly with poor network quality of service (QoS) issues, i.e. the service faults that feature heavily in the 2011 TIO Report.The big stick in the ACMA Report is its threat to mandate changes through regulation if 'the industry' does not rewrite the TCP code adequately by...

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The Speed of Collapse: The Space-Time Dimensions of Capitalism’s First Great Crisis of the 21st Century

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Temporality, space and technology: time‐space discourses of call centres

Temporality, space and technology: time‐space discourses of call centres

Theorizing the enactment of mediatized environmental conflict

Broadband transformation through improved support systems

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