《跟时间赛跑》这本书里，作者探讨的问题是我们现代人最能够体会的科技矛盾。科技让我们更有效率，帮我们节省时间以及力气。照例来说，我们应该有许多的时间以及力气库存下来，但是很少人真的这么认为。相反的，现代的科技似乎让人们感到更加急迫、更累、更没有时间。这真的是一个矛盾，因为科技当然让我们做事更快更有效率，几乎什么事情都可以在网络上、电话上解决。理论上，我们应该像皇帝一样悠闲，有更多的休息时间来享受生活。但是，我们只会听到人们抱怨时间不够用，email回不完。或许科技就是问题的来源，科技掌握了我们生命的节奏，就像在跑步机上越来越加速，让你无法跟上。
作者不完全同意以上的辩论，认为我们不能完全责怪科技。她在书中解释人们与科技之间的关系，以及为什么我们会感觉生活越来越被加速。作者认为我们并不是科技的人质，而我们感觉总是跟时间赛跑其实是来自于我们自己限制给自己定下的优先考量以及界限，而不是机器给我们的限制。作者提供了一些历史的观点，考虑了人们如何改变了对时间对观念，以及在工业年代，速度如何成为进步的定义。她同时探讨了现代社会的不同族群如何以不同方式利用时间，并解释工作模式、家庭生活以及育儿习惯如何影响我们对于时间的压力。作者用了凭经验的研究以及理论上的辩论来告诉读者如何利用科技来控制你的生活，而不是让科技控制你的生活。
关于作者：
Judy Wajcman是伦敦经济学院（ London School of Economics）的社会学教授。她写过TechnoFeminism以及合著The Social Shaping of Technology以及The Politics of Working Life。
目录：
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tools for Time
1 High-Speed Society: Is the Pace of Life Accelerating?
2 Time and Motion: Machines and the Making of Modernity
3 The Time-Pressure Paradox
4 Working with Constant Connectivity
5 Doing Domestic Time
6 Time to Talk: Intimacy through Technology
7 Finding Time in a Digital Age
Notes
Index
评语：
Inside Higher Education:
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/11/05/review-judith-wajcman-pressed-time-acceleration-life-digital-capitalism
Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“More, better, faster. So many of us take these as unproblematic goods. Judith Wajcman’s Pressed for Time—written in elegant, clear, accessible language—will make you take a new look at this kind of thinking. Armed with her analysis of the co-construction of technology, social practice, and our sense of what matters, ‘more, better, faster,’ and our modern culture of time is made problematic, insecure, and interesting. A must-read not only for a range of social scientists and humanists, but for everyone who wants to understand how we have remade time and remade ourselves in digital culture.”
Paul DiMaggio | Princeton University
“Wajcman integrates the voluminous literatures on time use and technology elegantly and concisely, a great service in itself. But, more important, she wisely leads the reader to new questions, more interesting and fruitful than the ones to which we are accustomed, helping us to think in terms not of quantities (of time or stress, of work or leisure) but of the flows and rhythms that we produce as we interact with technology and with one another. This is an essential addition to any bookshelf or syllabus on the social implications of information technology.”
Helga Nowotny, author of Time: The Modern and Postmodern Experience
“For all those who experience the time pressure paradox—ever more technological devices promising time-saving efficiency while feeling ever more harried—this brilliantly written book offers a fresh look at the temporal landscape in the digital age. It rejects the technological promise of speed as the ultimate telos of innovation and the perspective that we are all temporal victims of digitalization. Multiple temporalities coevolve with emergent technologies, shaped by gender relations and the value accorded to work-life and leisure balance. The dynamics of technological digitalization closes off some options while opening up others, thus encouraging us to think of an alternative politics of time.”
Saskia Sassen, author of Expulsions
“Across her books, Wajcman has chosen issues and problematics that needed to be addressed, examined, and re-interpreted. All her books share an intense engagement with major conditions that affect many of us. In this book she gives us her kind of analysis of time—its presences and absences, its visible and invisible vectors.”
Scott McLemee | Inside Higher Ed
"Wajcman delivers one sharp tap after anotherat the calcified interpretations that surround [technological] changes. It leaves the reader with a clear sense that the paradox of becoming trapped by devices that promise to free us follows, not from the technology itself, but from habits and attitudes that go unchallenged. . . . Pressed for Time helps elucidate how things shaped up as they have. It seems less paradoxical than pathological, but Wajcman suggests, rather quietly, that it doesn't have to be this way."
- 跟时间赛跑：在数字资本主义年代的生活加速
- Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism
- 作者：Judy Wajcman
- 出版社代理人：University of Chicago（美国）
- 出版时间：2014年11月
- 页数：224页加8张黑白图
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