Personally I find this the easiest simple mental model for reflexive modernity:
"Modernity linearly accelerated change. Reflexive modernity loops back on itself and accelerates the acceleration". So a bit of "singularity is near".
The whole theory itself has quite a bit more baggage, but again I agree, the wikipedia article does not help at all.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89201-2
The linked page to “reflexive” is much better, FWIW.
Personally I find this the easiest simple mental model for reflexive modernity:
"Modernity linearly accelerated change. Reflexive modernity loops back on itself and accelerates the acceleration". So a bit of "singularity is near".
The whole theory itself has quite a bit more baggage, but again I agree, the wikipedia article does not help at all.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89201-2