High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity by Hartmut Rosa
High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity by Hartmut Rosa
English | 15 Feb. 2009 | ISBN: 0271034165 | 325 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | 15 Feb. 2009 | ISBN: 0271034165 | 325 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
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.