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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About the Author
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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Marzena Kubisz

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Literary and cultural theory, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2014

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Cover 1
Contents 11
Introduction: Between Mercury and Jove 13
Part One – Speed: Towards Velocentric Perspective 23
Chapter One: “To Fly like Mercury”: Acceleration and Modern Experience 25
1. The Mercurial Start: “In a stage coach (if God permits)” 26
2. “Catch Me Who Can”: Fast-forwarding and Velocitization of Culture 33
3. “Faster!... faster still!”: Car Culture and the Theology of Speed 39
Conclusions 46
Chapter Two: Streamlined Culture and the Rise of the Mis-man 49
1. “Speed in a straight line”: New Conquests 51
2. Speed Now: In the Culture of Disappearing Stairs 61
Conclusions 72
Part Two – Slow Time and Alternative Hedonism 75
Chapter Three: “To Sit like Jove”: Slowness and Everyday Resistance 77
1. “But a different need is spreading”: From Speedsters to Slowniks 78
2. Theorizing the Slow: An Overview 88
Conclusions 98
Chapter Four: The Temporality of (Other) Pleasures 101
1. Between the Pleasures of Speed and Alternative Hedonism 102
2. Slow Living and New Representations of Pleasure 110
Conclusions 122
Part Three – The Other Speed: Cultural Practices and Representations 125
Chapter Five: New Territoriality in the Age of Deterritorialization 127
1. New Territoriality 129
2. Territories of the Slow Self: Slow Home and Slow City 133
3. “The Copenhagen Treatment”: From Vehicular to Pedestrian Culture 139
4. “Between the Buildings”: Renewing Community 144
Conclusions 148
Chapter Six: Negotiating Mobility: On the Slow Move 151
1. New Tourism 153
2. The Return of the Repressed: Travelling in the Travelless Age 156
3. Smelling the Roses: From the Occularcentric to the Multisensory 164
Conclusions 174
Chapter Seven: “Relocation, Relocation”:Slow Goes Pop 177
1. “[T]o the measure of a (slow) man”: Alternative Hedonism under the Tuscan Sun 179
2. “Out of Your Townie Mind”: The Rise of Slow Lit 191
Conclusions 202
Conclusions: Post-slow? Between Strategies and Props 205
Bibliography 211

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.
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.10.2014

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.

Marzena Kubisz. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 209-220).

2025-10-27