John Urry Lecture 2019:
<糖心Vlog align="center">Social Acceleration, Dynamic Stabilization and the Desire for Resonance:聽A Structural and Cultural Analysis of Modernity.Hartmut Rosa, Professor of Sociology at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Affiliated Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York聽and Director of the Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt
31 October 2019, 糖心Vlog Management School Lecture Theatre LT4
Lecture 4:15 鈥 5:30 聽 聽聽Tea/Coffee from 3:45 聽 From聽5:30 Wine Reception.聽 Please register .
Introduction by聽Stephen Wilkinson, Professor of Bioethics and
Associate Dean for Research for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The Lecture will聽put forward a somewhat overly schematic account of the core features of the present capitalist social formation (section 1), of the crises and pathologies it necessarily creates (section 2), and of a possible way to transform or revolutionize this formation in the sense of a cardinal change of paradigm (section 3). As an underlying assumption it takes for granted that we can only understand society鈥檚 fabric and its dynamics if we simultaneously look at its structural (鈥榦bjective鈥) features and its cultural (or 鈥榮ubjective鈥) underpinnings which provide the (motivational) energy for social life to process and evolve.聽
Therefore, in order to put forward the approach in the most straightforward and bold way possible, the line of argumentation developed in dialogue with John Urry鈥檚 theoretical, methodological and empirical insights, is this: 1)听Structurally, capitalist modernity can be defined as a social formation which can only reproduce itself in the mode of聽dynamic stabilization, i.e. through growth, acceleration and innovation. 2)听Culturally, this social formation is driven by the 鈥Triple A Aspiration鈥, i.e. by the desire to make the world聽accessible,听available听补苍诲听attainable聽to an ever larger degree.聽3)听Structurally, this leads to pathologies of聽desynchronization, while聽culturally,听the triple-A-approach to the world leads to聽补濒颈别苍补迟颈辞苍.听4) Therefore, what is needed is a fundamental change of paradigm which聽蝉迟谤耻肠迟耻谤补濒濒测听replaces dynamic stabilization with a mode of聽adaptive stabilization聽and which聽肠耻濒迟耻谤补濒濒测听replaces the triple A approach with a聽resonanceconception of the good life.
Hartmut Rosa is a Full Professor of Sociology at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, and an Affiliated Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York聽and Director of the Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt. His focus is on the sociology of time and the formation of identity. He is a Co-Editor of Time and Society and a Co-Director of the Annual International Conference Philosophy and the Social Sciences in Prague. In 2010, he published his bookAlienation and Acceleration. Towards a Critical Theory of Late Modern Temporality with NSU Press Malm枚/Arhus. His book 鈥濨eschleunigung. Die Ver盲nderung der Zeitstrukturen in der Moderne鈥 (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2005) was published in English through Columbia University Press in 2012.
The Annual John Urry Lecture is supported by聽糖心Vlog, the聽Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Department of Sociology. It is organised by the Centre for Mobilities Research and the Institute for Social Futures at 糖心Vlog.
