Preface
Introduction: Mind the Gap!
2. Information Culture, Information Cult
3. The Time of the Book, the Clock and Money
4. Speed
5. Exponential Growth
6. Stacking
7. The Lego Brick Syndrome
8. The Pleasures of Slow Time
Sources
Index
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo. He is the author of numerous books on anthropological issues, including Ethnicity and Nationalism and Small Places Large Issues (both published by Pluto Press).
'I found myself both charmed and challenged. The subject is an
important one, and Thomas Hylland Eriksen handles it with style, a
light touch, and many amiable provocations'
*Todd Gitlin, Professor of Culture, Journalism and Sociology, New
York University*
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