Acceleration functions as a strategy immunizing global power from democratic steering

Evidence

The new world order identified in the diagnoses of globalization and post-modernity is therefore not free from relations of power and domination, but these are no longer democratically legitimated and no longer politically accountable: from the viewpoint of individual and collective actors they prove to be unchecked, unsteered, and unsteerable. In this sense acceleration is unmasked as a political strategy of immunizing the power of streams that underlies the political project of globalization, understood as a politics of eliminating the modern demand for democratic steering. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 597

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Chronopolitics makes control of rhythm a core instrument of domination. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 96; Social acceleration itself erodes the preconditions for democratic self-steering — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 442; Velocity is deliberately weaponized to outpace democratic awareness and freeze resistance — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1092 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Velocity is deliberately weaponized to outpace democratic awareness and freeze resistance #corroborates (0.92) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1092
• Social acceleration is a self-reinforcing feedback loop #expands (0.75) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 434
• European democracies simultaneously empower and dominate through the same mechanisms #qualifies (0.72) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 719
• Individually opting out of acceleration causes social desynchronization costs #complicates (0.72) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 437