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Author(s): Hartmut Rosa, Jonathan Trejo-Mathys
ISBN(s): 9780231148344, 0231148348
Edition: 1
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Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0231148348 
ISBN 13: 9780231148344
Author: Hartmut Rosa, Jonathan Trejo Mathys

Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and acceleration in the pace of life, which happens despite the expectation that technological change should increase an individual’s free time. According to Rosa, both the structural and cultural aspects of our institutions and practices are marked by the “shrinking of the present,” a decreasing time period during which expectations based on past experience reliably match the future. When this phenomenon combines with technological acceleration and the increasing pace of life, time seems to flow ever faster, making our relationships to each other and the world fluid and problematic. It is as if we are standing on “slipping slopes,” a steep social terrain that is itself in motion and in turn demands faster lives and technology. As Rosa deftly shows, this self-reinforcing feedback loop fundamentally determines the character of modern life.

Social Acceleration A New Theory of Modernity 1st Table of contents:

1. Temporal Structures in Society
2. Two Contemporary Diagnoses of the Times
3. A Theory of Social Acceleration: Preliminary Considerations

Part 1. The Categorial Framework of a Systematic Theory of Social Acceleration
1. From the Love of Movement to the Law of Acceleration: Observations of Modernity
Acceleration and the Culture of Modernity
Modernization, Acceleration, and Social Theory

2. What is Social Acceleration?
Preliminary Considerations: Acceleration and Escalation
Three Dimensions of Social Acceleration
Five Categories of Inertia
On the Relation Between Movement and Inertia in Modernity

Part 2. Mechanisms and Manifestations: A Phenomenology of Social Acceleration
3. Technical Acceleration and the Revolutionizing of the Space-Time Regime
4. Slipping Slopes: The Acceleration of Social Change and the Increase of Contingency
5. The Acceleration of the “Pace of Life” and Paradoxes in the Experience of Time
Objective Parameters: The Escalation of the Speed of Action
Subjective Parameters: Time Pressure and the Experience of Racing Time
Temporal Structures and Self-Relations

Part 3. Causes
6. The Speeding Up of Society as a Self-Propelling Process: The Circle of Acceleration
7. Acceleration and Growth: External Drivers of Social Acceleration
Time is Money: The Economic Motor
The Promise of Acceleration: The Cultural Motor
The Temporalization of Complexity: The Socio-Structural Motor

8. Power, War, and Speed: State and Military as Key Institutional Accelerators

Part 4. Consequences
9. Acceleration, Globalization, Postmodernity
10. Situational Identity: Of Drifters and Players
The Dynamization of the Self in Modernity
From Substantial A Priori Identity to Stable A Posteriori Identity: The Temporalization of Life
From Temporally Stable to Situational Identity: The Temporalization of Time

11. Situational Politics: Paradoxical Time Horizons Between Desynchronization and Disintegration
Time in Politics—Politics in Time
The Temporalization of History in the Modern Age
Paradoxical Time Horizons: The Detemporalization of History in Late Modernity

12. Acceleration and Rigidity: An attempt at a Redefinition of Modernity

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