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Social acceleration: a new theory of modernity

·2013·Choice Reviews Online
DOI 10.5860/choice.51-1797
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Translator's IntroductionIn Place of a PrefaceIntroductionPart 1. The Categorial Framework of a Systematic Theory of Social Acceleration1. From the Love of Movement to the Law of Acceleration: Observations of Modernity2. What Is Social Acceleration?Part 2. Mechanisms and Manifestations: A Phenomenology of Social Acceleration3. Technical Acceleration and the Revolutionizing of the Space-Time Regime4. Slipping Slopes: The Acceleration of Social Change and the Increase of Contingency5. The Acceleration of the Pace of Life and Paradoxes in the Experience of TimePart 3. Causes6. The Speeding Up of Society as a Self-Propelling Process: The Circle of Acceleration7. Acceleration and Growth: External Drivers of Social Acceleration8. PowerPart 4. Consequences9. Acceleration10. Situational Identity: Of Drifters and Players11. Situational Politics: Paradoxical Time Horizons Between Desynchronization and Disintegration12. Acceleration and Rigidity: Attempt at a Redefinition of ModernityConclusion: Frenetic Standstill? The End of HistoryBibliographyIndex

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Venue
Choice Reviews Online
Publisher
American Library Association
Published
2013-10-21
Volume
51
Issue
03
Pages
51-1797-51-1797
ISSN
  • 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
  • 1523-8253
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10.5860/choice.51-1797
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