{"product_id":"9783032222732","title":"Terminal Destruction Capitalism, Technology, Accelerationism and The Decline Within Immediate Modernity","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTerminal Destruction\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCapitalism, Technology, Accelerationism and The Decline Within Immediate Modernity\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eNicholas Norman Adams\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePsychology \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eThis book examines contemporary technologically saturated life and argues that decline is not approaching but already underway. It names current reality as \u003cem data-ogsc=\"\"\u003eimmediate modernity\u003c\/em\u003e and defines its dominant state as \u003cem data-ogsc=\"\"\u003eThe Decline\u003c\/em\u003e: a loop where digital technology and capitalism reinforce one another while eroding meaning, stability, and future direction. The chapters trace how acceleration shifts from promise to paralysis: systems upgrade, yet social life repeats, exhausts, and frays. Drawing on social theory and cultural critique, the analysis follows platforms, artificial intelligence, crisis driven media, and data economies as they reshape identity, attention, and affect. Anxiety is reframed not as personal malfunction but as a rational response to structural conditions that demand constant productivity while delivering diminishing returns. Rather than predicting collapse, the book reveals how decline is presented as progress itself, and offers a diagnostic framework for understanding burnout, digital culture, technocapitalism, and experiences of lost futures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eNicholas Norman Adams\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003e\u003cspan data-ogsc=\"black\"\u003e is Permanent Research Fellow at Robert Gordon University, UK, and lives in Leith, Scotland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-ogsc=\"black\"\u003e He is an interdisciplinary psychologist and sociologist. He received his PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 2019. His research explores identity, risk, technology, accelerationism, and anxiety in contemporary Western culture. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29 May 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032222732\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e175\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46414625177740,"sku":"9783032222732","price":40.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032222732.jpg?v=1781088499","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032222732","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}