Hartmut Rosa’s Social Acceleration Theory: A New Critical Theory of Modernity
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Hartmut Rosa’s Social Acceleration Theory: A New Critical Theory of Modernity
This leads Rosa to see three interlaced, interconnected, and mutually penetrating dimensions that are the source of our speed-up: technological acceleration, acceleration of social life, and acceleration of the pace of life
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Technological acceleration, which is supposed to produce innovations that give you more free time, does the opposite. Acceleration does not release us from speed but always seeks more speed. Gaining more time through acceleration will demand that time be filled with more actions, not fewer.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Rosa means that “the basic institutional structure of modern society can be maintained only through constant escalation.” Modern society according to Rosa “is one that can stabilize itself only dynamically, in other words one that requires constant economic growth, technological acceleration, and cultural innovation in order to maintain its institu... See more