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Duffy plunges full-throttle into speedâs âadrenaline aesthetics,â offering deft readings of works ranging from F. Scott Fitzgeraldâs The Great Gatsby, through J. G. Ballardâs Crash, to the cautionary consumerism of Ralph Nader. 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. Assessing speedâs political implications, Duffy considers how speed pleasure was offered to citizens based on criteria including their ability to pay and their gender, and how speed quickly became something to be patrolled by governments. Drawing on novels, news reports, photography, advertising, and much more, Duffy provides a breakneck tour through the cultural dynamics of speed.
About: Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity.
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