Globalization’s novelty is velocity and frictionlessness, not long-distance exchange itself

Evidence

The exchange or movement of information, money, commodities, and people, or even of ideas and diseases, across large distances is not new: what is new is the speed and lack of resistance with which such processes transpire. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 563

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: By 1838 Europeans already conceived of space as a function of travel time — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 307; Globalization has occurred in multiple distinct historical waves — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1730; Globalization writing lacks historical perspective on state power — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 518

Broader Connections

• Globalization has occurred in multiple distinct historical waves #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1730
• Globalization writing lacks historical perspective on state power #expands (0.70) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 518