Social Acceleration. A new theory of modernity av Rosa Hartmut
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650 kr
ISBN; 9780231148344
Inbunden bok. Columbia University Press. 2013. 470 sidor.
Nära nyskick. Skyddsomslag i nära nyskick. 24x16 cm. 840 g. Oläst.
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.
