High-Speed Society Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity

Name: High-Speed Society Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity
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ISBN: 9780271034171

ISBN-10: 0271034173

ISBN-13: 9780271034171

Edition: 2008

Authors: Hartmut Rosa, William E. Scheuerman

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Everywhere, life seems to be speeding up: we talk of "fast food" and "speed dating." But what does the phenomenon of social acceleration really entail, and how new is it? While much has been written about our high-speed society in the popular media, serious academic analysis has lagged behind, and what literature there is comes more from Europe than from America. This collection of essays is a first step toward exposing readers on this side of the Atlantic to the importance of this phenomenon and toward developing some preliminary conceptual categories for better understanding it.Among the major questions the volume addresses are these: Is acceleration occurring across all sectors of…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction




Classical Perspectives on Social Acceleration



A Law of Acceleration




The Pace of Life and the Money Economy




The New Religion-Morality of Speed




The Mania for Motion and Speed




The Motorized Legislator




High-Speed Society: Theoretical Foundations



Social Acceleration: Ethical and Political Consequences of a Desynchronized High-Speed Society




Is There an Acceleration of History?




The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Globalizing Capital and Their Impact on State Power and Democracy




The Contraction of the Present




Speeding Up and Slowing Down




High-Speed Society: Political Consequences?



The State of Emergency




The Nihilism of Speed: On the Work of Paul Virilio




Temporal Rhythms and Military Force: Acceleration, Deceleration, and War




Speed, Concentric Cultures, and Cosmopolitanism




Citizenship and Speed



List of Contributors


Index