Travel Guide: Lakka & Antipaxos / Off-Grid Destinations

For those wanting to escape everything and everyone

According to German philosopher Hartmut Rosa, what defines the modern era above all else is acceleration. This occurs mainly in three areas: transportation, production, and communication. Never in the history of humanity has it been easier to go from one end of the world to another. Shein, the world’s largest fashion brand, launches 6,000 new garments each day. And thanks to Facetime and Zoom, we don’t even have to be on the same continent to be in a live meeting anymore. For decades, many academics and social engineers saw this as something positive. The acceleration would lead to increased efficiency. At universities, students of contemporary history were taught that dishwashers and washing-machines revolutionized everyday chores, allowing more time for relaxation and general downtime.

In a society strongly focused on continuously increased production, the act of doing nothing can be considered a radical form of protest.

More recent studies have shown this narrative to be false: Even …