Festina lente: От культуры ускорения к культуре замедления

С. 123–138.

Gofman A. B.

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.

Keywords: российское общество, Russian society, Acceleration, deceleration, “Slow Movement”, politics of time, Ускорение, замедление, «Медленное Движение», политика времени

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Вопросы социальной теории: Научный альманах

Т. IX: Теория культуры и жизненный мир человека. , М.: Издательство Независимого института гражданского общества, 2017.