Purposeful temporary slowdowns are prerequisites for broader acceleration

Evidence

Of exceptional significance for the functional capacity of modern societies are processes and institutions of purposeful partial and temporary deceleration that must not be confused with the efforts of the ideological countermovement against the acceleration dynamic. These strategies of slowdown may be indispensable presuppositions for the further acceleration of other processes. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 284

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the acceleration-is-what-we-study framing, and echoes ecological/steady-state thinking where pausing enables faster later growth. — connects to: Temporal impatience preceded and enabled technological acceleration, not vice versa — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 182; Acceleration generates slowdowns and stoppages as its own side effects — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 276; Apparent deceleration is often itself a strategy of acceleration — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 280 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Apparent slowdowns are not counterforces but products of acceleration itself #qualifies (0.80) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 294