Immobility and territorial rootedness have inverted from privilege marker to stigma of subordination

Evidence

Castells does not claim any more than the other aforementioned scholars that the space of flows and timeless time constitute the decisive space-time regime for all social groups in the globalized world. For most human beings, the space of (stable) places that prevails outside network streams and (linear) clock time are as dominant as ever, but the new modes of space and time determine the culturally and structurally decisive logics of development. … As Bauman makes clear, in “classical modernity” the spatiotemporal unboundedness of nomadism (e.g., of the homeless, the gypsies, the fahrendes Volk, or travelling people, etc.) was a sign of backwardness in comparison to settledness in the sense of a “permanent address” (and the time discipline related to clocks) and thus led to social exclusion, while today it is precisely the reverse: being bound to a place and having insufficient time sovereignty (that is, being caught in the space of places and long-term commitments) are things that make the socially subordinate classes appear backward and “left behind” and signal a danger of exclusion. If again and again in globalization discourse there is talk of the growing supremacy of capital over labor, it is rooted precisely in this: capital can move, so to speak, “timelessly” across the entire earth, while the mobility of workers and their ability to accelerate and become more flexible remain very limited. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 575

Categorization

• XREF: Inverts the earlier claim (ch13) that deliberate slowness shifted from poverty marker to privilege luxury — here immobility is now the mark of the subordinate. — connects to: Deliberate slowness shifted from poverty marker to privilege luxury — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 438
• SEED: The reversal where nomadism went from stigma to cosmopolitan ideal could anchor an essay on how ‘being grounded/files-down’ became a form of class disadvantage.