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Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 0275962059
- ISBN-13:
- 9780275962050
- Pub. Date:
- 04/30/1998
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN-10:
- 0275962059
- ISBN-13:
- 9780275962050
- Pub. Date:
- 04/30/1998
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
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Hyperculture: The Human Cost of Speed / Edition 1
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We live, according to Bertman, in a society ruled by the power of now, a power that gives us instant gratification even as it demands our instantaneous obedience. As a result, we have adapted our lives and values to match the speed-of-light electronic technologies that surround us. But, in so doing, we have paid a high price in spirit and mind. Cut off from the wisdom of the past and too rushed to consider the consequences of our actions, we are caught up in a culture of sensationalism and transience in which the very definitions of personal identity and democracy are being transformed. Hyperculture dares to suggest that the cure for our condition lies not in an information superhighway or third wave information revolution, but in the radical and painful process of decelerating our lives enough to reclaim them. It is a daunting challenge, to be sure, but one on which our happiness and even our survival depend.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780275962050 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publication date: | 04/30/1998 |
Pages: | 288 |
Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d) |
Lexile: | 1360L (what's this?) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Time MachineWarp Speed
The Three Sources of Now's Power
The Transformation of the Individual
The Transformation of the Family
The Transformation of Society
The Transformation of Democracy
The Transformation of International Relations
The Transformation of the Environment
The Three Keys to Resisting Now's Power
Beyond Future Shock
Recommended Reading
Index
What People are Saying About This
True, no one can predict the future, but a few gifted minds can extrapolate past trends....Bertman gives us a wise and insightful book.
Stephen Bertman has written a thoughtful, provocative analysis of the importance of cultural memory. It has large implications for parents, teachers, museums, libraries, and the mass media. I certainly hope it reaches a large popular audience.
True, no one can predict the future, but a few gifted minds can extrapolate past trends….Bertman gives us a wise and insightful book.
With an impressive command of the myriad details, Stephen Bertman identifies the main features of the revolutionary transformations that are taking place on our time-compact globe. Then, with the sensitivity of a scholar of classical and modern civilizations, he outlines an agenda for securing a continuity of humanness in the storm of change.
Stephen Bertman has written a thoughtful, provocative analysis of the importance of cultural memory. It has large implications for parents, teachers, museums, libraries, and the mass media. I certainly hope it reaches a large popular audience.
The effects of hyperculture…are powerful, thoroughly alarming and hardly understood, though experienced by all of us. Calling attention to the mechanisms and processes by which American society is being driven into frantic, and often purposeless, motion is a public service.
Stephen Bertman has written a thoughtful, provocative analysis of the importance of cultural memory. It has large implications for parents, teachers, museums, libraries, and the mass media. I certainly hope it reaches a large popular audience.
With an impressive command of the myriad details, Stephen Bertman identifies the main features of the revolutionary transformations that are taking place on our time-compact globe. Then, with the sensitivity of a scholar of classical and modern civilizations, he outlines an agenda for securing a continuity of humanness in the storm of change.
"Stephen Bertman focuses attention on the speedup of social and technological change that is disrupting people's lives everywhere. His book should open readers' eyes both to the urgency of the problem and to potential solutions."
"If you don't have as much time to read as you wish you had, you must buy this book. Sit down, read it slowly, carefully, and thoughtfully, and discuss it with those you live, love, and work with. Professor Bertman has his hand on the dangerously rapid pulse of a society spinning wildly out of control and rushing perilously away from the values, rituals, sacredness, and simple joys essential to health and healing. Unless we heed his carefully researched warnings about the risks of our mass hyperactivity, we may end up dying before we have ever fully lived."
The effects of hyperculture...are powerful, thoroughly alarming and hardly understood, though experienced by all of us. Calling attention to the mechanisms and processes by which American society is being driven into frantic, and often purposeless, motion is a public service.
Stephen Bertman writes some of the most powerful prose I have ever read, and in Hyperculture surpasses all his previous efforts. This is a profound book about a profound problem facing the modern world.