Slow Down! Digital Deceleration Towards A Socialist Social Media
Hartmut Rosa argues that three systems of social acceleration (technical acceleration, the acceleration of social change and the acceleration of the pace of life) have emerged as fundamental to the human experience of late modernity. It is here argued that the digital imaginary, specifically curated...
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Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group
2020-01-01
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| description | Hartmut Rosa argues that three systems of social acceleration (technical acceleration, the acceleration of social change and the acceleration of the pace of life) have emerged as fundamental to the human experience of late modernity. It is here argued that the digital imaginary, specifically curated by the “universal” social media platforms causes what Dominic Pettman has dubbed the “hypermodulation” of the subject, which contributes to the reproduction of the capitalist status quo. Consequently, I here argue that a socialist approach to the digital must commit to what Rosa would term an ideological (oppositional) deceleration to counteract such tendencies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c55b8627d8714ae889371a9d6b51e0ee2023-09-02T14:55:37ZengPaderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research GrouptripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique1726-670X1726-670X2020-01-0118125426710.31269/triplec.v18i1.11271127Slow Down! Digital Deceleration Towards A Socialist Social MediaJamie Ranger0University of OxfordHartmut Rosa argues that three systems of social acceleration (technical acceleration, the acceleration of social change and the acceleration of the pace of life) have emerged as fundamental to the human experience of late modernity. It is here argued that the digital imaginary, specifically curated by the “universal” social media platforms causes what Dominic Pettman has dubbed the “hypermodulation” of the subject, which contributes to the reproduction of the capitalist status quo. Consequently, I here argue that a socialist approach to the digital must commit to what Rosa would term an ideological (oppositional) deceleration to counteract such tendencies.https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1127digital socialismsocial mediaaccelerationhypermodulationdeceleration |
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| title | Slow Down! Digital Deceleration Towards A Socialist Social Media |
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| title_short | Slow Down! Digital Deceleration Towards A Socialist Social Media |
| title_sort | slow down digital deceleration towards a socialist social media |
| topic | digital socialism social media acceleration hypermodulation deceleration |
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