The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

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For book covers to accompany reviews, please contact the publicity department. Instructions for requesting an electronic text on behalf of a student with disabilities are available here. Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. Enda Duffy shows how the experience of speed has always been political and how it has affected nearly all aspects of modern culture. Primarily a result of the mass-produced automobile, the experience of speed became the quintessential way for individuals to experience modernity, to feel modernity in their bones.

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He describes how speed changed understandings of space, distance, chance, and violence; how the experience of speed was commodified in the dawning era of mass consumption; and how society was incited to abhor slowness and desire speed. He examines how people were trained by new media such as the cinema to see, hear, and sense speed, and how speed, demanded of the efficient assembly-line worker, was given back to that worker as the chief thrill of leisure.

Drawing on novels, news reports, photography, advertising, and much more, Duffy provides a breakneck tour through the cultural dynamics of speed.

He is the author of The Subaltern Ulysses. Sign up for Subject Matters email updates to receive discounts, new book announcements, and more.


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Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism Author s: Post-Contemporary Interventions Series Editor s: Speed as Culture 1 1. Speed Theory 17 2.

The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism

The Incitement to Speed 59 3. Car Culture, Adrenaline, and the Experience of Speed 4. Rapid Eye Movement and the Visuality of Speed 5. Crash Culture Epilogue: Overdrive Notes Bibliography Index Permission to Photocopy coursepacks If you are requesting permission to photocopy material for classroom use, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center at copyright.

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