Social acceleration takes three analytically distinct forms

Evidence

The protagonists see themselves up against not one but three different kinds of acceleration. In the first place, they have to deal with technological acceleration, which, as the story of Kairos illustrates, should have a decelerating effect on the tempo of life when seen from an abstract or purely logical perspective. In fact, however, the acceleration of the tempo of life presents us with a second form of social acceleration that is, in view of technological acceleration, paradoxical and in addition, as the previous consideration of the fisherman-entrepreneur’s dilemma shows, may be connected with a third, analytically independent manifestation of social acceleration: the acceleration of the social and cultural rate of change. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 65

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes technological acceleration, acceleration of life’s tempo, and acceleration of social/cultural change — the book’s typology.
• XREF: Echoes the escalating-pace claims familiar from theories of modernity across my reading, e.g. on communication technology reshaping culture. — connects to: Social acceleration splits into technical acceleration and social rates of change — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 227; Social acceleration submits to a unified quantitative definition via unit-of-time logic — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 230; Technological acceleration and acceleration of social change are analytically distinct phenomena. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 256 (+1 more)