Late modern temporal experience yields drift and political fatalism

Evidence

It leads individually to the experience of drift, or, put positively, of situationally open play, and politically to the fatalism of a rhetoric of objective forces and inevitable structural adjustment. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 778

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Social acceleration itself erodes the preconditions for democratic self-steering — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 442; A time loop’s uncanny charge depends on fatalism; open timelines dissolve it into affectlessness — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 760; A foreshortened temporal perspective blinds people to accumulating catastrophe (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• A time loop’s uncanny charge depends on fatalism; open timelines dissolve it into affectlessness #qualifies (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 760
• A foreshortened temporal perspective blinds people to accumulating catastrophe #corroborates (0.78)
• Multiple coexisting temporalities, not just homogeneous time, shape political responses. #qualifies (0.72)