Speed and Micropolitics

Bodies, Minds, and Perceptions in an Accelerating World
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-28065-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

This book provides a theoretical framework for understanding the micropolitics of speed; a rich, nuanced, and embodied account of life in an accelerating world. What does it feel like to live in an era of profound social acceleration? What kinds of affects, perceptions, and identities does an accelerating world produce? The answers to these questions mean more than simply understanding the psychology of speed; they also mean understanding issues in contemporary politics as diverse as xenophobia and anti-immigration policies, patterns of transnational identification and solidarity, social isolation and alienation, and the ability of new media to coordinate social movements.

While drawing extensively on the work of contemporary theorists, Simon Glezos recognizes that social acceleration is not a purely recent phenomenon. He therefore turns to thinkers such as Nietzsche, Spinoza, Bergson, and Merleau-Ponty, to ask how they sought to understand, and respond to, the rapid changes and unsettling temporalities of their eras, and how their insights can be applied to our own.

Advancing theoretical understanding and offering a useful way to analytically conceptualize the nature of time, Speed and Micropolitics will be of interest to students and scholars studying affect theory, theories of the body, new materialism, phenomenology, as well as the history of political thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glezos, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Zeiterfassung, Chronologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeitmessung: Physikalische und Technische Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Beyond Fast and Slow Part 1: Speed and Affect 1. Brown's Paradox: Speed, Ressentiment, and Global Politics 2. "No one has yet learned how fast the body can go": Spinoza, Speed, and the Body 3. Doing Well and Being Glad: Spinoza and the Roots of Reactionary Politics Part 2: Speed and Perception 4. Despisers of the Posthuman Body: Speed and Disembodiment 5. Embodied Virtuality: Perception and New Media in Bergson 6. In the Flesh of an Accelerating World: Merleau-Ponty, Technology, and the Encounter with the Other 7.Towards a Phenomenology of Speed: Merleau-Ponty and the Spatiality of an Accelerating World

Über Autor(innen)

Simon Glezos is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, BC, Canada. He has a Ph.D. in political theory and international relations from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA. He is the author of The Politics of Speed: Capitalism, the State, and War in an Accelerating World, also from Routledge press, and has published articles in CTheory, Contemporary Political Theory, The Journal of International Political Theory, International Politics, Postmodern Culture, The European Journal of Political Theory, and Philosophy in Review.