Book angle
The book replaces lazy acceleration talk with a stricter diagnosis: exhaustion is often a synchronization injury.
Why now
This concept explains why simply adapting faster often makes people feel worse rather than better.
Chapter references
- Chapter 1 - The Five Clocks
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FUTUROSHOCK: When Reality Gets Outsourced
Primary manuscript and conceptual spine for the entire atlas.
Future Shock
The original naming event behind the book's title and its revision.
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
A crucial precursor on temporal dislocation and perpetual presentness.
Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity
The main sociological account of acceleration, desynchronization, and modern temporal pressure.
Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World
The best counter-concept to acceleration: responsive relation rather than speed or optimization.