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Accelerations are culminating moments in history which seem to concentrate powers that explode to create something new. The run of time, as mentioned by Michelet (preface to his History of the XIXth century) is marked by these great commotions which at times can seem meaningless. Thus, each time that we believe to have reached a definite stage, the unusual, the strange strikes us. The problem is to understand and find a new set of concepts able to express the new order created by this «acceleration».
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Santos, M. (1995). Contemporary acceleration : world-time and world-space. In: Benko, G.B., Strohmayer, U. (eds) Geography, History and Social Sciences. The GeoJournal Library, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1681-9_11
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