The Generative Logic and Breakthrough Path of Social Acceleration and Time Anxiety from the Perspective of Digital Capitalism
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: 本文以哈特穆特・罗萨的社会加速批判理论为框架，深入剖析数字资本主义下时间焦虑的生成机制与异化表现。社会加速的技术、社会变迁、生活步调三重维度形成“加速循环”，导致个体时间主体性丧失、意义感消解及关系性联结受损。在数字资本主义语境中，技术媒介的“即时性暴政”、弹性工作制的“时间殖民”、消费文化的“速度强制”等因素，进一步加剧时间异化，使个体时间决策权让渡，意义感空洞化，现实共鸣关系消解。对此，笔者从个体、社会制度、技术设计三个层面提出应对路径：个体可通过数字戒断、捍卫时间主权等方式重建与世界的共鸣关系；社会需解构时间商品化逻辑，推动“离线权”立法、探索四天工作制等；技术设计应践行“慢科技”理念，重构工具伦理。通过多层级干预，有望打破加速循环，帮助人类重建本真时间经验与深度回应性的世界关系。 Based on the framework of Hartmut Rosa’s critical theory of social acceleration, this paper deeply analyzes the generation mechanism and alienation of time anxiety under digital capitalism. The three dimensions of social acceleration technology, social change, and pace of life form an “accelerated cycle”, which leads to the loss of individual temporal subjectivity, the dissolution of sense of meaning, and the impaired relationship of relational connection. In the context of digital capitalism, factors such as the “instant tyranny” of technological media, the “time colonization” of flexible work system, and the “speed compulsion” of consumer culture further exacerbate the alienation of time, resulting in the transfer of individual time decision-making power, the hollowing out of the sense of meaning, and the dissolution of the resonance relationship between reality. In this regard, the author proposes a response path from three levels: individual, social system, and technological design: individuals can reconstruct their resonant relationship with the world through digital abstinence and defending the sovereignty of time; Society needs to deconstruct the logic of time commodification, promote the legislation of “offline rights”, and explore the four-day work week. The technical design should practice the concept of “slow technology” and reconstruct the tool ethics. Through multi-level intervention, it is expected to break the cycle of acceleration and help human beings rebuild the relationship between the true time experience and the deeply responsive world.
Source: Advances in Philosophy
Author: 洲仪 朱
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4413032264