Social Acceleration and the Need for Speed - The Los Angeles Review of Books

[Mark Kohut]

Agreed. I read key parts of immediate interest to me. Must slow down
and find it again and read more/all.
Lhamon I had learned was real good...and this book proves it.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> On the topic of speed:
>
> W. T. Lhamon Jr., Deliberate Speed. The Origins of a Cultural Style in the
> American 1950's.
>
> http://www.amazon.de/Deliberate-Speed-Origins-Cultural-American/dp/0674008731
>
> Bought this in the City Lights bookstore way back when. Wittgenstein,
> Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, Little Richard, Ornette Coleman, Ralph
> Ellison, the great, great Chuck Berry, a chapter titled "Keep cool, but
> care" and much more. Highly recommended.
>
>
>
> Am 28.06.2015 um 15:14 schrieb Mark Kohut:
>>
>> Who else used speed as emblematic of modernity?
>>
>> I have always liked the word " resonance".
>>
>>
>>
>> http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/social-acceleration-and-the-need-for-speed/
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad-
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=nchon-l
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