Hartmut Rosa coined the term and theory of social acceleration. You've heard of accelerationism, the political idea that people should make the rate of change

Hartmut Rosa coined the term and theory of social acceleration. You've heard of accelerationism, the political idea that people should make the rate of change of society go as fast as possible. Social acceleration, if you take away the jargon around it and its causes, is the sociological theory that this is already happening uncontrollably, regardless of what direction people would like to steer things in.