Hartmut Rosa's Social Acceleration Theory
The Sociology of Everything Podcast - A podcast by Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu) - Wednesdays
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In this episode, Eric Hsu and Louis Everuss take time out of their somewhat busy schedules to talk about Hartmut Rosa's noted theory of 'social acceleration'. Rosa's (2003) article in the journal, Constellations, helps us make better sense of what it means to live in a high-speed society. Eric at one point in this episode recounts the time he gave a (hurried) presentation to Bob Hawke, the late former Labour party Prime Minister of Australia, and Louis admits that the new ordering system at h...