Cultural modernity as a whole is a reaction to accelerated time

Evidence

Since the Renaissance, which began a historically reconstructible debate concerning the “newtime” (neue Zeit), the defenders and the despisers of modernity have agreed on one point: its constitutive experience is that of a monstrous acceleration of the world, of life, and of each individual’s stream of experience. A series of recent historical works has made clear just how much the entire cultural history of modernity to the present day can be interpreted in light of this basic experience. Their common focus lies in the construal of the cultural self-understanding of modernity as a reaction to a changed experience of time and space. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 154

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the book’s foundational frame: modernity as reaction to a changed experience of time and space.
• XREF: Connects to Reinhart Koselleck’s notion of acceleration and to the history of the concept ‘new time’. — connects to: Cultural mediation once worked through latency and obscurity, now through speed. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 841; Modernity’s defining trait was living time as progress toward improvement — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1294; Modernity’s own self-observation forces time structures to become sociology’s central object — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 123 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern culture as a whole is a reaction to successive waves of time-space compression #expands (0.95) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 168
• Modernity’s temporalization of time restructures every social form and concept. #expands (0.75) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 199
• Contemporary transformations are modernity’s self-radicalization, not its ending #qualifies (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 127