Excluded masses may revolt violently against acceleration society
Evidence
It stands to reason that modern society will have to pay for the loss of the ability to balance movement and inertia with nuclear or climatic catastrophes, with the diffusion at a furious pace of new diseases, or with new forms of political collapse and the eruption of uncontrolled violence, which can be particularly expected where the masses excluded from the processes of acceleration and growth take a stand against the acceleration society. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 850
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Unequal subsystem acceleration generates new waiting times — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 802; Resistance efforts can be complicit with the very exclusionary power they oppose — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1243; Spontaneous mass uprising without organized revolutionary leadership invites state suppression — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 77 (+10 more)
Broader Connections
- The spectacle’s crowd could invert terror into revolt against the punitive power
#corroborates(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 115 - Exclusionary authoritarian coalitions seed later electoral violence while inclusive ones do not.
#corroborates(0.80) — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 4 - Resistance efforts can be complicit with the very exclusionary power they oppose
#complicates(0.78) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1243 - Violent revolt infects the oppressed with the oppressor’s own evil
#complicates(0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 98 - Government repression can push fringe individuals into violent opposition by blocking legitimate paths
#corroborates(0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4129 - Restricting freedom provokes the rebellion it aims to prevent
#corroborates(0.78) - Spontaneous mass uprising without organized revolutionary leadership invites state suppression
#qualifies(0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 77 - Siege regimes criminalize opposition and cross-societal solidarity as treason
#corroborates(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 677 - Popular uprisings succeed only when elite allies coordinate with mass discontent
#qualifies(0.75) - Ordinary people’s refusal can topple even entrenched systems of power
#corroborates(0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1661 - Statolatry must be criticised so civil society becomes self-governing and spontaneous
#expands(0.72) - Construction of distant ends forces violence that revolt can avoid.
#qualifies(0.72)