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Social Acceleration

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Social Acceleration

By Hartmut Rosa

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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9780231148351

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2015

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1

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Social Acceleration

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Paperback

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