Speed= distance/time : chronotopographies of action

Crang, M.

Speed= distance/time : chronotopographies of action

Crang, M.

Authors

Professor Michael Crang m.a.crang@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Contributors

R. Hassan
Editor

R. Purser
Editor

Abstract

In this essay I want to begin with some of the grand claims and narratives of changing temporality heralded via information technology. However, I also want to write into these the way changes in time are bound up with changes in space, and that spatialities and temporalities are mutually constitutive. I begin with stories of compression and dispersal - that is activities intensifying in time and allegedly dispersing in space. In this tale I foreground discussions of acceleration and speed in a real-time society. From this, I suggest how flexibility of location and timing of activities can be seen through information and communication technologies (ICTs). Finally, I highlight several specific aspects of flexibility in both time and space, but also start to figure how the two dimensions act together.

Citation

Crang, M. (2007). Speed= distance/time : chronotopographies of action. In R. Hassan, & R. Purser (Eds.), 24/7 : time and temporality in the network society (62-88). Stanford University Press

Publication Date	Jan 1, 2007
Deposit Date	Sep 2, 2008
Pages	62-88
Book Title	24/7 : time and temporality in the network society.
Chapter Number	3
Publisher URL	http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?isbn=080475196X