Apparent deceleration is often itself a strategy of acceleration

Evidence

Intentional efforts and often ideologically justified movements toward conscious deceleration and social slowdown must be strictly distinguished from phenomena of unintended and dysfunctional deceleration. They can be further subdivided into genuine (ideological) decelerating movements, which often appear as a basically oppositional force with decidedly antimodern features, and slowdown efforts that aim at maintaining or even promoting functional and accelerative capabilities (whether individual or social) and thus actually represent, in the end, strategies of acceleration. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 280

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the core taxonomy distinguishing genuine ideological deceleration from instrumentally-motivated slowdown.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that apparent slowing — rest, mindfulness, sabbaticals — gets subsumed as acceleration-enabling gear is genuinely paradigm-shifting for how one reads wellness culture.
• XREF: connects to: Acceleration persists out of fear of falling, not by choice — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 653; The stretched or simultaneous present is an effect of acceleration, not its successor — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 124; Deceleration tendencies are secondary reactions to, not equals of, acceleration in modernization. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 125 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Apparent slowdowns are not counterforces but products of acceleration itself #corroborates (0.95) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 294
• Purposeful temporary slowdowns are prerequisites for broader acceleration #corroborates (0.90) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 284
• Acceleration generates slowdowns and stoppages as its own side effects #qualifies (0.75) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 276