High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity by Hartmut Rosa, William E. Scheuerman

High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity

Hartmut Rosa, William E. Scheuerman

328 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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Everywhere, life seems to be speeding up: we talk of "fast food" and "speed dating." But what does the phenomenon of social acceleration really entail, and how new is it? While much has been written about our high-speed society in the popular medi...

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