Time, Communication and Global Capitalism

In this book Wayne Hope analyzes the double relation between time and global capitalism. In order to do this, he cross-relates four epistemes of time - epochality, time reckoning, temporality and coevalness - with four materializations of time - hegemony, conflict, crisis and rupture. Using this framework allows Hope to argue that global capitalism is epochally distinctive, riven by time conflicts, prone to recurring crises, and vulnerable to collective opposition. These critical insights are not easily thematized in a mediated world of real-time reflexivity, detemporalized presentism, and denials of coevalness associated with structural exclusions of the poor. However, the worldwide repercussions of the 2008 financial collapse and the resulting confluence of occupation movements, riots, protests, strike activity, and anti-austerity activism raises the prospect of a rupture within and beyond global capitalism.

Autorentext

Wayne Hope is Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He is a researcher, teacher and media commentator across the areas of New Zealand media history, public sphere analysis, the political economy of communication, sport-media relationships, globalization and time. He is joint editor of the online IAMCR journal Political Economy of Communication.

Zusammenfassung

Wayne Hope highlights the incessant conflicts between real-time and clock time, presentism and temporality, coevalness and allochronism within global capitalism. He argues that these pervade global media, finance, political economies, workplaces and everyday life, and were central to the 2008 financial crisis.

Inhalt
Introduction
PART I: TIME, GLOBALITY, CAPITALISM

1. Epistemes of Time in Global Context
2. Materializations of Time in Global Context
   PART II: TIME, HEGEMONY AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM
3. Epochal Shift
4. Global Mediations of Time
   PART III: CONFLICTS OF TIME WITHIN GLOBAL CAPITALISM
5. Capital Realization, Financialization and Time Conflict
6. Capitalism, Worker Exploitation and Time Conflict
7. Political Economies of Time Conflict
   PART IV: THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM
8. Time, Communication and Financial Crisis
9. Crises Without End
   PART V: CRISIS, COLLECTIVE OPPOSITION AND RUPTURES OF TIME
10. Communication, Synchronicity and Counter-Power
11. Towards a Time Manifesto<B