Prior scholars each studied one acceleration realm without integrating them

Evidence

In almost all the studies done on the theme of acceleration, one of these three forms or spheres of social acceleration is, for the most part unreflectively, placed front and center while phenomena in the other domains are falsely subsumed under the chosen category. Thus the work of Paul Virilio, for instance, circles around the phenomena of technological acceleration, while Hermann Lübbe or Matthias Eberling concentrate on the acceleration of social change, and Georg Simmel or Robert Levine occupy themselves with the acceleration of the pace of life. Doubtless the most interesting question, however, concerns the internal connection between these categories of acceleration. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 229

Categorization

  • XREF: Georg Simmel’s pace-of-life work connects toward the reader’s earlier Simmel reading on social forms. — connects to: Social theory lacks any systematic theory of acceleration unlike other modernization tendencies — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 209

Broader Connections