Time: The Modern and Postmodern Experience

This book is a major contribution to the understanding of time, particularly in relation to modernity. The development of industrialism was based upon a linear and abstract conception of time. Today we see that form of production, and the social institutions associated with it, supplanted by flexible specialization and just-in-time production systems. New information and communication technologies have made a fundamental impact here.This incisive analysis of the temporal implications of modern communication considers the implications of worldwide simultaneous experience, made possible by satellite technologies, and considers the reorganization of time involved in the continuous technological innovation that marks our era. In this puzzling universe of action, how does one achieve a time of one's own'? The discovery of a specific time perspective centered in the individual expresses a yearning for forms of experience that are subversive of established institutional patterns.Nowotny, Helga is the author of 'Time: The Modern and Postmodern Experience', published 1994 under ISBN 9780745608921 and ISBN 0745608922.