Towards a Phenomenology of Social Acceleration: Schutzian Reflectios on Late Modern Time Experience

ALEXIS EMANUEL GROS

Lima

Workshop; Interamerican Phenomenological Workshop 2018; 2018

Contemporary capitalist societies areaccelerated social formations. Among other things, this means that they arecharacterized by constant and fast transformations in all spheres of life: technology, politics, culture, economy, etc. As experts in different disciplines argue, thedynamization of the lifeworld in late modernity has perturbing effects onsubjective experience such as, for instance, the emergence of feelings ofdisorientation. In the present paper, I intend to phenomenologically analyzethose effects. In order to do so, I will read Hartmut Rosa?s theory of socialacceleration through the lens of Alfred Schutz?s social phenomenology.