The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism by Enda Duffy

The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism

Post-Contemporary Interventions

Enda Duffy

306 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction literary sociology informative reflective slow-paced
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Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. The Speed Handbook is a virtuoso exploration of Huxley's claim. Enda Duffy shows how the experience of speed has alwa...

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