Faster. Faster. Faster. Not only do we expect more of ourselves in less time, but we also expect the same from our organizations. This collection of 10 essays from contributors with a range of disciplines and viewpoints address speed in connection with organizational identity, technology, and imagery. Coverage includes such topics as fast capitalism and its conflict with slow modernity, a psychoanalytical and critical reading of preoccupation with speed, power and resistance in accelerating organizations through representational infrastructures, the hot-desk environment and the personalization (or lack thereof) of work space, myths of speed in Israel's high-tech industry, the speed factor in fast food, the bicycle messenger at full speed as corporate icon, and the human experience of inhuman speed. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
