Resistance in the Deceleration Lane
Velocentrism, Slow Culture and Everyday Practice
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Beschreibung
The book is largely concerned with the history of Western culture of speed that forms the framework within which the phenomenon of slow living is placed. A comprehensive analysis of practices and representations of deceleration in everyday life – slow travel, slow London and slow lit – suggests the rise of a post-slow stage in the history of speed.
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.
Autor*in
Marzena Kubisz
Themen in »Resistance in the Deceleration Lane«
Celeration Culture Deceleration Everyday Kubisz Kultur der Geschwindigkeit Kulturpraktiken Lane Langsamkeit Practice Resist Resistance Slow Velocentrism Velozentrismus