Social acceleration now outgrows and erodes the very institutional structures that produced it.

Evidence

According to the thesis I will justify in what follows, the institutions of that spirit can no longer provide resistance because the forces of acceleration have developed so far that even the institutional structures that brought about and supported their unfolding can no longer keep up with them. Thus they become hindrances to acceleration and braking forces at the threshold of another modernity. Social acceleration has outgrown them and is now beginning to erode them and thereby introduce the end of the phase of institutionally immobilized social background conditions in which the space of experience and the horizon of expectation were congruent with respect to the rules of the game. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 298

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that institutional accelerators eventually turn into braking forces once acceleration outgrows them is a dense, dialectical thesis that resists summary and repays mulling.
• XREF: connects to: Social acceleration erodes the institutions that once stabilized chosen identities. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 32; Social acceleration compresses the present across all institutional spheres — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 261; Modernity’s acceleration corrodes the very institutional stability it depends on — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 297 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Modernity’s acceleration corrodes the very institutional stability it depends on #corroborates (0.92) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 297
• Social acceleration erodes the institutions that once stabilized chosen identities. #exemplifies (0.85) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 32
• Acceleration generates institutions that then block further speed and get destroyed #expands (0.85) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 299
• Social acceleration compresses the present across all institutional spheres #expands (0.82) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 261