GLOBArt Academy 2008 / Entschleunigung. Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit (Deceleration. The Discovery of Slowness)

You think a second doesn't matter? On the global financial markets it can be an eternity. With the economisation of the early 19th century, the transformation of time into money was accelerated. At first, acceleration came from the machine; soon it took hold of and changed every area of life. More and more often we no longer act autonomously but are driven by a system that demands ever faster answers, results or reactions. Haste and stress shape our everyday lives. Cyclical cultures, by contrast, still resist change today; they try to keep the world in balance. Let us learn a new “old” attitude to life from the tradition of ancient cultures: slowness. The publication addresses various aspects of time and deceleration such as sleep, stress, breathing spaces and information overload, and offers a successful mix of practical advice on slowing down, new time management, dealing with computers and the internet, and the so-called accelerators of our time.

ISBN: 978-3-211-89138-4

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