Social acceleration: a new theory of modernity
2013; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 51; Issue: 03 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.51-1797
ISSN1943-5975
Autores Tópico(s)Political Economy and Marxism
ResumoTranslator's IntroductionIn Place of a PrefaceIntroductionPart 1. The Categorial Framework of a Systematic Theory of Social Acceleration1. From the Love of Movement to the Law of Acceleration: Observations of Modernity2. What Is Social Acceleration?Part 2. Mechanisms and Manifestations: A Phenomenology of Social Acceleration3. Technical Acceleration and the Revolutionizing of the Space-Time Regime4. Slipping Slopes: The Acceleration of Social Change and the Increase of Contingency5. The Acceleration of the Pace of Life and Paradoxes in the Experience of TimePart 3. Causes6. The Speeding Up of Society as a Self-Propelling Process: The Circle of Acceleration7. Acceleration and Growth: External Drivers of Social Acceleration8. PowerPart 4. Consequences9. Acceleration10. Situational Identity: Of Drifters and Players11. Situational Politics: Paradoxical Time Horizons Between Desynchronization and Disintegration12. Acceleration and Rigidity: Attempt at a Redefinition of ModernityConclusion: Frenetic Standstill? The End of HistoryBibliographyIndex
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