When levels of temporal experience desynchronize, recovery requires cultural or structural revolution

Evidence

This work certainly shares the basic intention of social criticism. Nevertheless it seeks to obtain its criteria for the diagnosis of “pathological” developments, as it were, from within society by on the one hand drawing our attention to the phenomena of desynchronization and disintegration resulting from social acceleration and on the other holding the temporal perspectives relevant to action and culture up against the structurally imposed patterns of time. Where the three (or, if one includes sacred time, four) levels of the individual’s experience of time can no longer be brought into accord with one another and with the systemic patterns of time, severe consequences unavoidably result for actors, both individual and collective. A resynchronization is then only possible at the cost of a (temporal-) cultural or (temporal-) structural “revolution.” — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 150

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the book’s core diagnostic concept of desynchronization between levels of time-experience as the definition of pathological social development.
• XREF: connects to: Theorists locate the postmodern shift in a crisis of spatial-temporal experience — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1255; Loss of temporal coherence in the subject produces fragmentary, aleatory cultural forms. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 95; Cultural distance, not national borders, drives transformative experience — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2253 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Institutional tempo and actors’ temporal orientations can diverge and desynchronize. #corroborates (0.80) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 113
• Late modern temporal experience yields drift and political fatalism #expands (0.78) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 778
• Functional differentiation drives desynchronization between societal systems’ time structures. #corroborates (0.78) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 200
• Theorists locate the postmodern shift in a crisis of spatial-temporal experience #corroborates (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1255
• Cultural distance, not national borders, drives transformative experience #qualifies (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2253
• Modern shock experiences undermine the basis of traditional lived experience #corroborates (0.73) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 861
• Loss of temporal coherence in the subject produces fragmentary, aleatory cultural forms. #corroborates (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 95