Institute of Sociology
of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Gofman A. Festina Lente: From Culture of Acceleration to Culture of Deceleration



Gofman A. Festina Lente: From Culture of Acceleration to Culture of Deceleration // Voprossy Sotsialnoy Teorii: Nauchniy Almanakh. Tom IX (Problems of Social Theory: Miscellany. Vol.IX). 2017. Teoria Kultury i Jiznenniy Mir Cheloveka (Theory of Culture and Human Lifeworld) / Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. Ed. by Yu.Reznik. – Moscow: Independent Institute of Civil Society, 2017. P. 123-138.
ISSN 2227-7951
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Posted on site: 18.07.17

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Abstract

The subject of this article is the culture of acceleration in present-day world. The author analyzes some of grave social consequences provoked by the cult of speed and by the uncontrolled acceleration of various domains of life, such as “presentism”, i.e. the absorption of the past and future by the present time; social amnesia; superficial character of social changes; growing difficulties of selection of necessary information; danger of loss of culture acquisitions, etc. Some aspects of widespread “Slow Movement”, resisting this uncontrolled and total acceleration are analyzed. Finally, the problems of acceleration are considered in Russian context.

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