Modern society links growth with acceleration so tightly that they function as one

Evidence

Thus the guiding hypothesis of this work runs as follows: modern society can be understood as an “acceleration society” in the sense that it displays a highly conditioned (voraussetzungsreiche) structural and cultural linkage of both forms of acceleration—technical acceleration and an increase in the pace of life due to chronic shortage of time resources—and therefore also a strong linkage of acceleration and growth. This implies that the average rate of growth (defined as increase of the total quantity of things produced, communicated, distances covered, etc.) exceeds the average rate of acceleration. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 238

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the book’s core thesis of modern society as an ‘acceleration society’ with acceleration and growth structurally coupled.
• XREF: connects to: Society’s growth-propelling rationality is itself irrational despite apparent efficiency — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 92; Social acceleration is the irreducible master principle of modernization — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 762

Broader Connections

• Social acceleration is the irreducible master principle of modernization #expands (0.85) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 762