Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Hartmut Rosa and William E. Scheuerman
Part 1. Classical Perspectives on Social Acceleration
1. A Law of Acceleration
Henry Adams
2. The Pace of Life and the Money Economy
Georg Simmel
3. The New Religion-Morality of Speed
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
4. The Mania for Motion and Speed
John Dewey
5. The Motorized Legislator
Carl Schmitt
Part 2. High-Speed Society: Theoretical Foundations
6. Social Acceleration: Ethical and Political Consequences of a Desychronized High-Speed Society
Hartmut Rosa
7. Is There an Acceleration of History?
Reinhart Koselleck
8. The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Globalizing Capital and Their Impact on State Power and Democracy
Bob Jessop
9. The Contraction of the Present
Hermann Lübbe
10. Speeding Up and Slowing Down
John Urry
Part 3. High-Speed Society: Political Consequences?
11. The State of Emergency
Paul Virilio
12. The Nihilism of Speed: On the Work of Paul Virilio
Stefan Breuer
13. Temporal Rhythms and Military Force: Acceleration, Deceleration, and War
Herfried Münkler
14. Speed, Concentric Circles, and Cosmopolitanism
William E. Connolly
15. Citizenship and Speed
William E. Scheuerman
List of Contributors
Index