ISBN:
9781529213997
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (151 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Disruptive technologies-Social aspects
;
Social change
;
Technology-Social aspects
Abstract:
This pioneering work explores how in our digital age of connectivity, temporal acceleration and real-time simultaneity impact personal and institutional experience. Bringing memory and future studies into a unique dialogue, the book offers an intervention to the current 'temporal crisis' of social life and sociological debates.
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Exploring New Temporal Horizons: A Conversation between Memories and Futures -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- One Memories: What Memories Does the Future Need? -- Memento -- Individual and collective memories -- Spaces of experience and horizons of expectations -- What elaborating the past means -- Experiences -- The autobiographical space -- Nostalgias -- Memories of the future -- Globalization and memories -- Media and new media -- A partial conclusion -- Two Futurity: Changing Futures in a Changing World -- Between past and future -- Time cultures -- Towards the open future: the premises -- The new historical time and the future -- Progress and modernity -- Futurism: between the celebration of the future and the myth of speed -- And what about the past? -- Presentism and the threatening future of the 21st century -- A final thought: rethinking progress -- Three Memory and Future through the Generations -- Living in different times -- A society with many elders and few young people -- Acceleration transforms the relationships between generations -- Distance and closeness of generations within the family -- Distance and closeness of generations in education -- Political generations: discontinuities, conflicts, silences and removals -- The relationships between generations in the era of COVID-19, the return of war and the environmental crisis -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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