The Speed Handbook

""The Speed Handbook" is not just a dazzling book but a necessary one. There is nothing else like it. Enda Duffy insists on the political stakes of speed, persuasively connecting the emergence of speed as the 'only new pleasure invented by modernity' with commodity fetishism, the sensorium, gender, 'endocolonization, ' 'adrenaline aesthetics, ' and social control. This superlative work will become required reading for scholars of modernism, historians of technology, materialist critics, and even egg-headed car lovers."--Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of "The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination"