The Sociology of Speed Digital, Organizational, and Social Temporalities

Judy Wajcman, Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics, Visiting Professor, Oxford Internet Institute,Nigel Dodd, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics

Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously Professor of Sociology at the Reseach School of Social Sciences, Australian National Univeristy. Her scholarship has focused on the sociology of work and employment, science and technology studies, sociology of information and communication technologies, gender theory, and organizational analysis. She has been President of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, and was recently awarded the William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award by the Communications and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association.


Nigel Dodd is a Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Sociology. Nigel's main interests are in the sociology of money, economic sociology and classical and contemporary social thought. He is author of The Sociology of Money and Social Theory and Modernity (both published by Polity Press). His latest book, The Social Life of Money, was published by Princeton University Press in 2014. Nigel is also co-editor (with Patrik Aspers) of Re-Imagining Economic Sociology (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Introduction, Judy Wajcman & Nigel Dodd
Part I: Theories
1. Simmel and Benjamin: Early Theorists of the Acceleration Society, Nigel Dodd & Judy Wajcman
2. De-Synchronization, Dynamic Stabilization, Dispositional Squeeze: The Problem of Temporal Mismatch, Hartmut Rosa
3. Accelerating to the Future, John Urry
Part II: Materialities
4. Capital's Geodesic: Chicago, New Jersey, and the Material Sociology of Speed, Donald MacKenzie
5. Digital Cultures of Use and their Infrastructures, Saskia Sassen
6. 'A Pause in the Impatience of Things': Notes on Bureaucracy and Speed, Paul Du Gay
7. The Athleticism Of Accomplishment: Time Management and the Labor of Productivity, Melissa Gregg
Part III: Temporalities
8. Being on Hold: Trials and Tribulations of Outsourcing the Time Burden, Harvey Molotch
9. Speed Trap and the Temporal: Of Taxis, Truck Stops, and Task Rabbits, Sarah Sharma
10. Bending Time to a New End: Investigating the Idea of Temporal Entrepreneurship, Ingrid Erickson & Melissa Mazmanian
11. Speed, Time, Infrastructure: Temporalities of Breakdown, Maintenance and Repair, Steven Jackson