Social accelerationHartmut Rosa
Social acceleration
by Hartmut Rosa · first published 2013
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"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
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…environments just as they do in "normal politics"; the corporate power structure is not that far removed from the royal palaces of the kingdom or more generally from a dictatorship. Recommended read. 2. Social Acceleration by Hartmut Rosa. This one was a though read, but absolutely illuminating. It presents an extremely clear analytic analysis on why we increasingly feel like like "we don't have enough time". It starts…
on “Ask HN: What are you reading Feb 2024” ↗…technology have written extensively around the subject) that social norms and habits can shape technological development as much as it shapes them, so maybe that's a starting point? I recommend reading "Social Acceleration: Ethical and Political Consequences of a Desynchronized High-Speed Society" as a starting point, and possibly then "Pressed for Time" by Judy Wajcman.
on “The economics, risk and ethics of time compression [pdf]” ↗Good list, especially the last one. See also social acceleration [1], from German sociologist and political scientist Hartmut Rosa. Rosa argues that this current culture leads to a crisis in democratic self-determination, as the current quick demands of modern society…
on “Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed” ↗…capacities it touches. Critical theorists have described this: Byung-Chul Han speaks of a "burnout society" where excessive positivity eliminates resistance and produces exhaustion. Hartmut Rosa describes "social acceleration" — if you don't speed up, you fall behind — and the result is alienation. What I'm offering is not a new critique. It's a way of seeing the same pattern across domains — and naming what's being lost:…
on “The Cost of Seamlessness” ↗