Mark Hearn is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, Australia. His research focuses on key transformative periods of historical change, including the fin de siècle and late modernity. He has published several scholarly articles in The Historical Journal, Gender and History, Rethinking History, Journal of Australian Studies and History Australia and is the author of The fin de siècle Imagination in Australia (Bloomsbury, 2022).

• Introduction: ‘Die Wende’: The Late Modern Fin de Siècle1. ‘Play the space’: The Cultural Sixties and the Narrative Turn to Late Modernity 2. ‘Speed up the work’: The Global Acceleration of Neoliberalism3. Discomposing Sovereignties: Late Modern Terror4. Something More: Late Modern Culture5. ‘A strange luminescence’: Progress and NatureConclusion: Welcome to the Anthropocene

Mark Hearn has succeeded in writing one of those history books that combine thought-provoking arguments with an in-depth introduction to key historical epochs. Focussing on the idea of ‘acceleration’, his global history of the period between the 1960s and the 2000s provides a fascinating journey through a series of transformative changes in the political economy, the social fabric and the cultural representations of the modern world in the ‘planetary age’ (Dipesh Chakrabarty). In particular, the incommensurability of the huge material progress made by mankind and the impending planetary disasters awaiting it, feature prominently on these pages.

Mark Hearn is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, Australia. His research focuses on key transformative periods of historical change, including the fin de siècle and late modernity. He has published several scholarly articles in The Historical Journal, Gender and History, Rethinking History, Journal of Australian Studies and History Australia and is the author of The fin de siècle Imagination in Australia (Bloomsbury, 2022).

• Introduction: ‘Die Wende’: The Late Modern Fin de Siècle1. ‘Play the space’: The Cultural Sixties and the Narrative Turn to Late Modernity 2. ‘Speed up the work’: The Global Acceleration of Neoliberalism3. Discomposing Sovereignties: Late Modern Terror4. Something More: Late Modern Culture5. ‘A strange luminescence’: Progress and NatureConclusion: Welcome to the Anthropocene

Mark Hearn has succeeded in writing one of those history books that combine thought-provoking arguments with an in-depth introduction to key historical epochs. Focussing on the idea of ‘acceleration’, his global history of the period between the 1960s and the 2000s provides a fascinating journey through a series of transformative changes in the political economy, the social fabric and the cultural representations of the modern world in the ‘planetary age’ (Dipesh Chakrabarty). In particular, the incommensurability of the huge material progress made by mankind and the impending planetary disasters awaiting it, feature prominently on these pages.

Mark Hearn is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, Australia. His research focuses on key transformative periods of historical change, including the fin de siècle and late modernity. He has published several scholarly articles in The Historical Journal, Gender and History, Rethinking History, Journal of Australian Studies and History Australia and is the author of The fin de siècle Imagination in Australia (Bloomsbury, 2022).

• Introduction: ‘Die Wende’: The Late Modern Fin de Siècle1. ‘Play the space’: The Cultural Sixties and the Narrative Turn to Late Modernity 2. ‘Speed up the work’: The Global Acceleration of Neoliberalism3. Discomposing Sovereignties: Late Modern Terror4. Something More: Late Modern Culture5. ‘A strange luminescence’: Progress and NatureConclusion: Welcome to the Anthropocene

Mark Hearn has succeeded in writing one of those history books that combine thought-provoking arguments with an in-depth introduction to key historical epochs. Focussing on the idea of ‘acceleration’, his global history of the period between the 1960s and the 2000s provides a fascinating journey through a series of transformative changes in the political economy, the social fabric and the cultural representations of the modern world in the ‘planetary age’ (Dipesh Chakrabarty). In particular, the incommensurability of the huge material progress made by mankind and the impending planetary disasters awaiting it, feature prominently on these pages.