Running to stand still: late modernity's acceleration fixation

dc.contributor.authorKavanagh, Donncha
dc.contributor.authorLightfoot, Geoff
dc.contributor.authorLilley, Simon
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-24T15:04:18Z
dc.date.available2016-06-24T15:04:18Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.updated2014-11-01T16:42:17Z
dc.description.abstractThat we live in a time of unprecedented and ever-increasing change is both a shibboleth of our age and the more-or-less explicit justification for all manner of “strategic” actions. The seldom, if ever, questioned assumption is that our now is more ephemeral, more evanescent, than any that preceded it. In this essay, we subject this assumption to some critical scrutiny, utilizing a range of empirical detail. In the face of this assay we find the assumption to be considerably wanting. We suggest that what we are actually witnessing is mere acceleration, which we distinguish as intensification along a preexisting trajectory, parading as more substantive and radical movement away from a preexisting trajectory. Deploying Deleuze's (2004) terms we are, we suggest, in thrall to representation of the same at the expense of repetition of difference. Our consumption by acceleration, we argue, both occludes the lack of substantive change actually occurring while simultaneously delimiting possibilities of thinking of and enacting the truly radical. We also consider how this setup is maintained, thus attempting to shed some light on why we are seemingly running to stand still. As the Red Queen said, “it's necessary to run faster even to stay in the one place.”en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationKavanagh, D., Lightfoot, G. and Lilley, S. (2007) 'Running to stand still: late modernity's acceleration fixation', Cultural Politics, 3(1), pp. 95-122. doi: 10.2752/174321907780031043en
dc.identifier.doi10.2752/174321907780031043
dc.identifier.endpage122en
dc.identifier.issn1743-2197
dc.identifier.issn1751-7435
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleCultural Politicsen
dc.identifier.startpage95en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/2780
dc.identifier.volume3en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rights© Berg 2007en
dc.subjectChangeen
dc.subjectAccelerationen
dc.subjectManagementen
dc.subjectStrategyen
dc.subjectTechnological diffusionen
dc.titleRunning to stand still: late modernity's acceleration fixationen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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