Ritual and narrative forms defy acceleration because they are syllogistic

Evidence

Unlike mere addition, then, narration is a syllogism. Knowledge – the state of knowing – is a syllogism. Rituals and ceremonies are syllogistic forms too. They represent a narrative process. As such, they have their own temporality, their own rhythm and pace. As narratives, they defy acceleration. But when all syllogistic forms fall apart, everything dissolves; nothing has a stay. In a world where everything has become additive, where all narrative tension – any vertical tautness – has gone missing, total acceleration sets in. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 164

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off ch12’s point that activities requiring maturity and duration cannot be gamified — here the mechanism is that narratives defy acceleration. — connects to: Syllogistic knowledge is narrative, while Big Data is purely additive — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 162; Progress narratives fail to explain fast cultural changes like crazes — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 520; Rituals and ceremonies are narrative forms that resist temporal acceleration — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 164
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that acceleration is the residue of collapsed syllogistic/narrative temporality — a genuine diagnosis of why the digital age accelerates.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Related

• Rituals and ceremonies are narrative forms that resist temporal acceleration (similarity 0.91)

Broader Connections

• Progress narratives fail to explain fast cultural changes like crazes #complicates (0.80) — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 520