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Triple Illusion of Acceleration of Modern Capitalist Society

From:社科报2022-2-5 14:03

Yu Tianyu points out in his article in Study & Exploration(the 12th issue of 2021) that the acceleration of modern capitalist society is essentially the acceleration of needs and production driven by the logic of capital, and then it would be trapped in an acceleration cycle logic starting with the acceleration of science and technology. In the process of dealing with dangerous consequences of the acceleration of modern capitalist society, the modern capitalist society has shown its unique triple illusion, that is, the illusion of "slow tempo" for the purpose of realizing more "fast"; the "resonance" illusion which tries to eliminate alienation experience in the acceleration of capitalist society by means of compromise and self-paralysis; the illusion of "scientific and technological promise"(the promise of human liberation brought by scientific and technological development) which covers up the fact that capital logic tries to break through resource limitation and realize sustainable multiplication of capital. The triple illusion of modern capitalist society has not gone beyond the limits of capitalism itself. It cannot fundamentally reverse the fact of the acceleration of modern capitalist society.