Centre for Contemporary Culture at Palazzo Strozzi

Palazzo Strozzi

Thursday, June 10, 2010, 18:30

Lecture by Carmen Leccardi

The subjects face the accelerating

The sense of anxiety that comes from lack of time has become a condition that takes us in many aspects of our lives. In the moment in which time is understood as a limited resource its management system is compared to the economic system. Indeed, we can say that in the last century has proceeded to a real-time monetization, found in production systems as they are consumed. The reflection of the sociologist Carmen Leccardi will help us understand how it changed our relationship with the temporal dimension and how we can adapt to new processes that distinguish accelerated this evolution.

 

Carmen Leccardi is a sociologist and professor at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Milan-Bicocca. Co-director, from 1999 to 2009, the magazine “Time & Society”, which is now Consulting Editor, has been a member for four years of the Scientific Committee of the International Society for the Study of Time and is currently part of what the magazine “Temporalités”. Among his recent publications include Sociology of the time. Individuals and companies in the acceleration time (2009) and Sociology of everyday life (2003).

 

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