Time in the Age of Complexity

Kingsley Dennis (1)

1 Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University

Technically mediated forms of interconnectivity and communication are sustaining complex arrangements through which are emerging more dynamic and interdependent physical-digital relations. This article examines the intensification of time through the lens of complexity theory and argues that increasingly networked infrastructures are moving towards an integrated global complexity in real-time. I suggest that shifts in physical-digital temporality are having a significant effect upon how the `social' is being reconfigured.

Mots clés: complexity; ICTs; networks; real-time

Kingsley Dennis. Time in the Age of Complexity. Time & Society, 2007, 16 (2-3), pp.139-155. ⟨10.1177/0961463X07080259⟩. ⟨hal-00571028⟩