Modernity simultaneously experienced as dynamic and as frozen iron cage.

Evidence

Even though it was already formulated by, for instance, Max Weber and Alexandre Kojève and was present as, so to speak, a subtext from the very beginning of modern times, toward the end of the twentieth century it occupies increasing amounts of space in the public mind and appears to affect the experience of reality of the majority of our contemporaries. People speak here of a “crystallization” of the cultural and structural formations of their own age, of its appearing to be an “iron cage” in which nothing essential changes anymore and nothing new occurs. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 108

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the ch3/ch4 motif that rapid surface change can mask deep structural stagnation. — connects to: Modernity’s future is a teleology already accomplished, at once open and closed — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1279
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Modernity’s future is a teleology already accomplished, at once open and closed #expands (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1279