High-Speed Society

Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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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 society and all dimensions of life, or is it affecting some more than others? Where is life not speeding up, and what results from this disparity? What are the fundamental causes of acceleration, as well as its consequences for everyday experience? How does it affect our political and legal institutions? How much speed can we tolerate? The volume tackles these questions in three sections. Part 1 offers a selection of astute early analyses of acceleration as experienced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Part 2 samples recent attempts at analyzing social acceleration, including translations of the work of leading European thinkers. Part 3 explores acceleration’s political implications.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-11-15
Mått152 x 230 x 24 mm
Vikt510 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271034171

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ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionHartmut Rosa and William E. ScheuermanPart 1. Classical Perspectives on Social Acceleration1.A Law of AccelerationHenry Adams2.The Pace of Life and the Money EconomyGeorg Simmel3.The New Religion-Morality of SpeedFilippo Tommaso Marinetti4.The Mania for Motion and SpeedJohn Dewey5.The Motorized LegislatorCarl SchmittPart 2. High-Speed Society: Theoretical Foundations6.Social Acceleration: Ethical and Political Consequences of a Desychronized High-Speed SocietyHartmut Rosa7.Is There an Acceleration of History?Reinhart Koselleck8.The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Globalizing Capital and Their Impact on State Power and DemocracyBob Jessop9.The Contraction of the PresentHermann Lübbe10.Speeding Up and Slowing DownJohn UrryPart 3. High-Speed Society: Political Consequences?11.The State of EmergencyPaul Virilio12.The Nihilism of Speed: On the Work of Paul VirilioStefan Breuer13.Temporal Rhythms and Military Force: Acceleration, Deceleration, and WarHerfried Münkler14.Speed, Concentric Circles, and CosmopolitanismWilliam E. Connolly15.Citizenship and SpeedWilliam E. ScheuermanList of ContributorsIndex

“This is an intriguing collection of texts centering on a theme about which social science has had little, and certainly little that is systematic and cumulative, to say. The editors’ idea is to try to capture the thought, ever more widespread since the eighteenth century, that more and more aspects of our lives—technological, economic, public and political, private and intimate—are speeding up. To what extent is this true? If true, what are its consequences, for instance, for the quality of individual lives and for the functioning of democratic politics, and for the condition of those marginalized by and excluded from this allegedly accelerating dynamism of modernity? It is an excellently edited collection of interesting essays on an important subject.”—Steven Lukes, New York University