Even systems theory lacks adequate concepts to analyze cross-system temporal mismatch.
Evidence
We would need to be in a position to estimate the degree of heterogeneity in temporal structures which we can tolerate in the various subsystems of our society; it would be important to know how the shrinking time horizons of families affect the economy and how we could counter the well-known negative influence that the time perspectives of a growing economy have on the political system… . It is hard to see how one might go about working on these questions or even trying to answer them. Systems theory appears to be the only conceptual frame of reference equipped with sufficient complexity. Up to now, however, systems theory has only applied very simple chronological concepts of time and futurity and conceived the future simply as the state of a system at a later moment of time. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 201
Categorization
- QUESTION: Whether systems theory truly is the only frame with sufficient complexity is a claim worth probing against other temporal approaches.
- XREF: connects to: Systems theory’s synchronic framework makes diachronic theories of acceleration difficult — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 202; Social theory lacks any systematic theory of acceleration unlike other modernization tendencies — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 209; Multiple simultaneous temporalities complicate any simple model of secular time. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 875
Broader Connections
- Systems theory’s synchronic framework makes diachronic theories of acceleration difficult
#qualifies(0.92) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 202 - Social theory lacks any systematic theory of acceleration unlike other modernization tendencies
#expands(0.85) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 209 - Multiple simultaneous temporalities complicate any simple model of secular time.
#contradicts(0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 875