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Resistance in the Deceleration Lane
Velocentrism, Slow Culture and Everyday Practice
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Marzena Kubisz
Motivated by a desire to reflect critically on the ways in which speeds, both high and low, and their representations affect the construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of meanings around particular cultural texts, images and practices,
Resistance in the Deceleration Lane uses the velocentric perspective to examine the phenomenon of «slow living» and its rhetoric. The book analyzes cultural practices which are inspired by the conviction that the increased speed of everyday life cannot be accepted unquestioningly. It portrays slowness as a strategy of contestation and resistance on one hand, and on the other it highlights the process of the gradual commercialization of the slow logo and suggests the rise of a
post-slow stage in the history of speed.
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- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2014. 220 pp.
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- Introduction: Between Mercury and Jove
- Part One – Speed: Towards Velocentric Perspective
- Chapter One: “To Fly like Mercury”: Acceleration and Modern Experience
- 1. The Mercurial Start: “In a stage coach (if God permits)”
- 2. “Catch Me Who Can”: Fast-forwarding and Velocitization of Culture
- 3. “Faster!“ faster still!”: Car Culture and the Theology of Speed
- Conclusions
- Chapter Two: Streamlined Culture and the Rise of the Mis-man
- 1. “Speed in a straight line”: New Conquests
- 2. Speed Now: In the Culture of Disappearing Stairs
- Conclusions
- Part Two – Slow Time and Alternative Hedonism
- Chapter Three: “To Sit like Jove”: Slowness and Everyday Resistance
- 1. “But a different need is spreading”: From Speedsters to Slowniks
- 2. Theorizing the Slow: An Overview
- Conclusions
- Chapter Four: The Temporality of (Other) Pleasures
- 1. Between the Pleasures of Speed and Alternative Hedonism
- 2. Slow Living and New Representations of Pleasure
- Conclusions
- Part Three – The Other Speed: Cultural Practices and Representations
- Chapter Five: New Territoriality in the Age of Deterritorialization
- 1. New Territoriality
- 2. Territories of the Slow Self: Slow Home and Slow City
- 3. “The Copenhagen Treatment”: From Vehicular to Pedestrian Culture
- 4. “Between the Buildings”: Renewing Community
- Conclusions
- Chapter Six: Negotiating Mobility: On the Slow Move
- 1. New Tourism
- 2. The Return of the Repressed: Travelling in the Travelless Age
- 3. Smelling the Roses: From the Occularcentric to the Multisensory
- Conclusions
- Chapter Seven: “Relocation, Relocation”: Slow Goes Pop
- 1. “[T]o the measure of a (slow) man”: Alternative Hedonism under the Tuscan Sun
- 2. “Out of Your Townie Mind”: The Rise of Slow Lit
- Conclusions
- Conclusions: Post-slow? Between Strategies and Props
- Bibliography
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Introduction: Between Mercury and Jove
- Part One – Speed: Towards Velocentric Perspective
- Chapter One: “To Fly like Mercury”: Acceleration and Modern Experience
- 1. The Mercurial Start: “In a stage coach (if God permits)”
- 2. “Catch Me Who Can”: Fast-forwarding and Velocitization of Culture
- 3. “Faster!“ faster still!”: Car Culture and the Theology of Speed
- Conclusions
- Chapter Two: Streamlined Culture and the Rise of the Mis-man
- 1. “Speed in a straight line”: New Conquests
- 2. Speed Now: In the Culture of Disappearing Stairs
- Conclusions
- Part Two – Slow Time and Alternative Hedonism
- Chapter Three: “To Sit like Jove”: Slowness and Everyday Resistance
- 1. “But a different need is spreading”: From Speedsters to Slowniks
- 2. Theorizing the Slow: An Overview
- Conclusions
- Chapter Four: The Temporality of (Other) Pleasures
- 1. Between the Pleasures of Speed and Alternative Hedonism
- 2. Slow Living and New Representations of Pleasure
- Conclusions
- Part Three – The Other Speed: Cultural Practices and Representations
- Chapter Five: New Territoriality in the Age of Deterritorialization
- 1. New Territoriality
- 2. Territories of the Slow Self: Slow Home and Slow City
- 3. “The Copenhagen Treatment”: From Vehicular to Pedestrian Culture
- 4. “Between the Buildings”: Renewing Community
- Conclusions
- Chapter Six: Negotiating Mobility: On the Slow Move
- 1. New Tourism
- 2. The Return of the Repressed: Travelling in the Travelless Age
- 3. Smelling the Roses: From the Occularcentric to the Multisensory
- Conclusions
- Chapter Seven: “Relocation, Relocation”: Slow Goes Pop
- 1. “[T]o the measure of a (slow) man”: Alternative Hedonism under the Tuscan Sun
- 2. “Out of Your Townie Mind”: The Rise of Slow Lit
- Conclusions
- Conclusions: Post-slow? Between Strategies and Props
- Bibliography
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Marzena Kubisz is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures at the University of Silesia (Poland). Her research focuses on body, multiculturalism and the social impacts of speed. She is the author of Strategies of Resistance. Body, Identity and Western Culture (Peter Lang, 2003).
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Introduction: Between Mercury and Jove
- Part One – Speed: Towards Velocentric Perspective
- Chapter One: “To Fly like Mercury”: Acceleration and Modern Experience
- 1. The Mercurial Start: “In a stage coach (if God permits)”
- 2. “Catch Me Who Can”: Fast-forwarding and Velocitization of Culture
- 3. “Faster!“ faster still!”: Car Culture and the Theology of Speed
- Conclusions
- Chapter Two: Streamlined Culture and the Rise of the Mis-man
- 1. “Speed in a straight line”: New Conquests
- 2. Speed Now: In the Culture of Disappearing Stairs
- Conclusions
- Part Two – Slow Time and Alternative Hedonism
- Chapter Three: “To Sit like Jove”: Slowness and Everyday Resistance
- 1. “But a different need is spreading”: From Speedsters to Slowniks
- 2. Theorizing the Slow: An Overview
- Conclusions
- Chapter Four: The Temporality of (Other) Pleasures
- 1. Between the Pleasures of Speed and Alternative Hedonism
- 2. Slow Living and New Representations of Pleasure
- Conclusions
- Part Three – The Other Speed: Cultural Practices and Representations
- Chapter Five: New Territoriality in the Age of Deterritorialization
- 1. New Territoriality
- 2. Territories of the Slow Self: Slow Home and Slow City
- 3. “The Copenhagen Treatment”: From Vehicular to Pedestrian Culture
- 4. “Between the Buildings”: Renewing Community
- Conclusions
- Chapter Six: Negotiating Mobility: On the Slow Move
- 1. New Tourism
- 2. The Return of the Repressed: Travelling in the Travelless Age
- 3. Smelling the Roses: From the Occularcentric to the Multisensory
- Conclusions
- Chapter Seven: “Relocation, Relocation”: Slow Goes Pop
- 1. “[T]o the measure of a (slow) man”: Alternative Hedonism under the Tuscan Sun
- 2. “Out of Your Townie Mind”: The Rise of Slow Lit
- Conclusions
- Conclusions: Post-slow? Between Strategies and Props
- Bibliography
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Introduction: Between Mercury and Jove
- Part One – Speed: Towards Velocentric Perspective
- Chapter One: “To Fly like Mercury”: Acceleration and Modern Experience
- 1. The Mercurial Start: “In a stage coach (if God permits)”
- 2. “Catch Me Who Can”: Fast-forwarding and Velocitization of Culture
- 3. “Faster!“ faster still!”: Car Culture and the Theology of Speed
- Conclusions
- Chapter Two: Streamlined Culture and the Rise of the Mis-man
- 1. “Speed in a straight line”: New Conquests
- 2. Speed Now: In the Culture of Disappearing Stairs
- Conclusions
- Part Two – Slow Time and Alternative Hedonism
- Chapter Three: “To Sit like Jove”: Slowness and Everyday Resistance
- 1. “But a different need is spreading”: From Speedsters to Slowniks
- 2. Theorizing the Slow: An Overview
- Conclusions
- Chapter Four: The Temporality of (Other) Pleasures
- 1. Between the Pleasures of Speed and Alternative Hedonism
- 2. Slow Living and New Representations of Pleasure
- Conclusions
- Part Three – The Other Speed: Cultural Practices and Representations
- Chapter Five: New Territoriality in the Age of Deterritorialization
- 1. New Territoriality
- 2. Territories of the Slow Self: Slow Home and Slow City
- 3. “The Copenhagen Treatment”: From Vehicular to Pedestrian Culture
- 4. “Between the Buildings”: Renewing Community
- Conclusions
- Chapter Six: Negotiating Mobility: On the Slow Move
- 1. New Tourism
- 2. The Return of the Repressed: Travelling in the Travelless Age
- 3. Smelling the Roses: From the Occularcentric to the Multisensory
- Conclusions
- Chapter Seven: “Relocation, Relocation”: Slow Goes Pop
- 1. “[T]o the measure of a (slow) man”: Alternative Hedonism under the Tuscan Sun
- 2. “Out of Your Townie Mind”: The Rise of Slow Lit
- Conclusions
- Conclusions: Post-slow? Between Strategies and Props
- Bibliography