Exploring New Temporal Horizons
Cavalli, Alessandro / Leccardi, Carmen / Jedlowski, Paolo
In this book leading sociologists explore how in our digital age of connectivity, temporal acceleration and real-time simultaneity impact personal experience, relations between generations and institutional processes. The authors analyse the entanglement between past and future and explain how our ability to conceive the future is based not only upon the memory of the past, but also on forecasts about environmental crisis. Bringing memory and ...