Hope W. Time, Communication and Global Capitalism

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 244 p. — ISBN10: 1137443456; ISBN13: 978-1137443458.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.Time, Globality, CapitalismEpistemes of Time in Global Context
Materializations of Time in Global ContextTime, Hegemony and Global CapitalismEpochal Shift
Global Mediations of TimeConflicts of Time within Global CapitalismCapital Realization, Financialization and Time Conflict
Capitalism, Worker Exploitation and Time Conflict
Political Economies of Time ConflictThe Crisis of Global CapitalismTime, Communication and Financial Crisis
Crises without EndCrisis, Collective Opposition and Ruptures of TimeCommunication, Synchronicity and Counter-Power
Toward a Time Manifesto