Time and Space in the Internet Age

This book analyzes how new technologies transformed life and thought between two periods, 1880-1920 and 1980-2020, with a focus on temporal experiences of past, present, future and the spatial experiences of form, distance, and direction.

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Stephen Kern is an Honorary Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. He has authored The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918; The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns; A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought; and The Modernist Novel: A Critical Introduction.

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Introduction 1. THE NATURE OF TIME: Number, Texture, Order 2. PAST: Length, Force, Value, Retrieval 3. PRESENT: Spatially Expanded Present, Temporally Lengthened Present, Cognitively Thickened Present 4. FUTURE: Weather Forecasting, Genetic Disease, Climate Change, The End of the Universe, The Clock of the Long Now 5. PACE: Travel, Communication, Production, Lifestyle 6. THE NATURE OF SPACE: Number, Texture, Order 7. FORM: Self, Nation 8. DISTANCE: Sociology, Geopolitics, Economics, Social Life, Environment 9. DIRECTION: East-West Axis, The Cold War, North-South Axis, Up-Down Axis Conclusion