Better, faster, higher—more! In the last decade in particular, this trend has led our everyday life and work almost to the point of absurdity. The sociologist and political scientist Hartmut Rosa (*1965) established the term Racing standstill for this. He compares our accelerated society to a constantly descending escalator: while we try to climb up as quickly as possible in the opposite direction, it keeps accelerating so that our pace of life gets faster, but we end up standing still in the same place—Racing standstill. The pace of life has therefore increased, and with it stress, hectic, and time pressure. Although we are gaining enormous amounts of time in almost all areas of social life through technological acceleration, we are not gaining any time. Our challenge is therefore to find time to take a deep breath in our own oases of deceleration. Laura Drews wants to raise awareness of this paradoxical construct of our modern society and critically examine the associated loss of self-determination.