By Ben Agger
In his 1989 booklet, quickly Capitalism, Ben Agger offered a framework for realizing late-20th century social difficulties. Speeding Up speedy Capitalism, a sequel to his past e-book, assesses social adjustments because the finish of the Nineteen Eighties caused by means of details applied sciences just like the net, that have quickened the velocity of way of life.
In rushing Up speedy Capitalism, Agger assesses the effect of the web on attention, communique, tradition and group, and evaluates the clients of democratic social switch. the place the sooner e-book used to be mostly theoretical, Speeding Up applies severe concept to express issues comparable to net tradition, paintings, households, youth, education, meals, the physique and health.
Although indebted to Fast Capitalism, the sequel appeals to an viewers wider than theorists, together with empirical sociologists, social scientists and students in cultural disciplines.
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But it is only seldom that any of Ovid’s characters find themselves torn between their obvious obligation to an existing contract of marriage and their desire for immediate gratification. The resolution of such a conflict takes a variety of forms but they are all, for the most part, rationalizations which insist that the ardour of passion has created its own obligation – or necessity – which now must be honoured. In the hands of these characters stability becomes a movable thing indeed. There is a recurring motif of legalism through many of the letters.
AD 8 Ovid is relegated (in effect, exiled) to the Black Sea town of Tomis. His Metamorphoses is virtually complete and the Fasti half finished. He continues to work on the Fasti intermittently in exile, but never completes it. 9–12 Ovid composes the Tristia and the Ibis. 13 Ex Ponto 1–3 published. 14 9 August: Augustus dies. His adopted stepson, Tiberius, becomes emperor. 17 Ovid dies in exile. Ex Ponto 4 is published posthumously. Further Reading Since the publication of this translation in 1990, a number of scholars have addressed the critical and scholarly understanding of the Heroides.
HAROLD ISBELL graduated from Loras College, Iowa, in 1959. He took his MA in 1962 at the University of Notre Dame, later joining the university’s faculty in the Program of Liberal Studies. Prior to 1972 he was Writer in Residence, Director of the Writing Program, and most recently held the position of Associate Professor of English at St Mary’s College at Notre Dame. From 1972 until 1983 he was an officer and a director of the Continental Bank and Trust Company in Salt Lake City. Over the years he has served on the boards of directors of one school, two ballet companies and a publishing house.