A coherent slow-living opposition ideology emerged around the digital revolution

Evidence

In agreement with this, from 1989 to the turn of the century the discourse of acceleration and deceleration has swelled as a reaction to the increase in speed through the digital and political revolutions of this period. Lack of time and acceleration are continuous themes in the popular science media and in the op-ed and essay sections of the major newspapers, works offering guidance and counseling about improved time management sell rapidly, and the admonitory voices of oppositional decelerators launch into a mighty crescendo. Books and movements that have committed themselves to a conscious slowing down, for example, Fritz Reheis’s best seller The Creativity of Slowness or Sten Nadolny’s Discovery of Slowness or even the aforementioned Union for the Slowing Down of Time, have such a wide appeal that Peter Glotz sees in them the emergence of a new, dominant oppositional ideology. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 178

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the silence book’s chronicle of deceleration movements fighting for quiet.