Chronopolitics makes control of rhythm a core instrument of domination.
Evidence
Whether, how, and to what extent the future is planned depends to a great degree on the stability and predictability of the social and cultural environment. … The question who determines the rhythm, duration, sequencing, and synchronization of activities and events forms a central arena for conflicts of interest and power struggles. Chronopolitics is thus a central component of any form of domination, and in the historical process, as, above all, Paul Virilio never tires of postulating and elucidating, domination is as a rule the domination of the faster. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 96
Categorization
- XREF: The ‘domination of the faster’ thesis connects to ch3 claims about democratic lawmaking lagging private-market innovation. — connects to: Global power deliberately dismantles rooted community bonds to stay fluid and invincible — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 595; Acceleration functions as a strategy immunizing global power from democratic steering — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 597; Control of time enables coordination of activity and social control — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Power controls the individual through the segmented, seriated ordering of time.
#corroborates(0.92) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 242 - Control of time enables coordination of activity and social control
#expands(0.85) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848 - The timetable imposes abstract clock-time as the frame for all activity
#exemplifies(0.82) - Social power arises from hierarchies interacting with rhythms and composed wholes
#corroborates(0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 368 - Pervasive music extends political domination by breaking down individual resistance
#expands(0.78) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 571