Media acceleration is a convention of time-equals-money, not necessity

Evidence

I think in general we like to stir ourselves up in various ways, using art or using media or whatever, and I think it’s just as valid to move against the norm, and the norm at the moment is to speed everything up. … I mean, that’s what we’re trying to attain, aren’t we, through media? – That awful maximisation of time and efficient transmission of ‘information’. Some of this is economic – time equals money – and some is simply done because it can be done, and has become an unquestioned convention. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 420

Categorization

• XREF: Slowness as counter-norm echoes the book’s earlier claims about the desire for silence against noise and constant information overload undermining thought (adjacent reading). — connects to: Rapid online copying now kills new music scenes before they mature — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 250; Informational overload caused the dot.com crash, not the reverse — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 452; Instantaneous publication is a recent expectation, not a technical constraint. — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms,…, 349
• SEED: Angle: the quiet-courage aesthetic — Harold Budd/John Foxx leaving space — as an artistic retort to economic and technical acceleration, contrasting with the ‘lapel grabbing’ of commercial media.