Social Acceleration: Five “Deflationary” Comments

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rpub.79243" target="_blank" >https://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rpub.79243</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rpub.79243" target="_blank" >10.5209/rpub.79243</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Social Acceleration: Five “Deflationary” Comments

Original language description

I argue that some arguments associated with “acceleration debate” consolidated by the work of Hartmut Rosa are “inflationary” – not necessarily incorrect. Then I explain what such conceptual dramatization means and what the “deflationary” approach is. After that I outline five polemical comments about accelerating capitalist modernity. Importantly, I do not take an issue with convincing arguments claiming that modern era is an era of social intensification, dynamization and acceleration as other important thinkers such as Reinhart Koselleck, Marshall Berman, Robert Hassan and Paul Virilio have claimed. In this essay I take issue with three dimensions of the acceleration debate. Namely with 1) often-apocalyptic outlook that many (not all) acceleration thinkers maintain, 2) with rather undifferentiated inferences made thereupon, and, 3) with some conceptual insensitivity associated with acceleration. The conclusion comprises a simple proposition – more ethnography of social acceleration is needed, more observation and in-situ social investigations of time use, temporal orders, social rhythms, waiting are overdue in order to substantiate conceptual debate on social acceleration.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-15511S" target="_blank" >GA19-15511S: Maintaining Experimental Time: How Scientists Obtain, Secure and Use Time for Experimental Research</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Res Publica

ISSN

1576-4184

e-ISSN

1989-6115

Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

ES - SPAIN

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

445-453

UT code for WoS article

000734175000012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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