Enda Duffy

Todd Martin

Gerri Kimber

This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories.

Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories

George Dyson

David Edgerton

Alfred Jarry

Pauline Oliveros

Siegfried Zielinski

Mark Fell

Timothy Druckrey

Arie Altena

Thomas W. Patteson

Joel Ryan

Catherine Christer Hennix

Robin Hayward

Hilary Jeffery

Keith Fullerton Whitman

Gilles Aubry

Hilel Schwartz

Omar Muñoz-Cremers

Critical essays and interviews in this volume reveal the significance and intricacies of time and particularly how we experience it. Time is a complex and ambiguous concept. Relativity theorists and quantum mechanics have tinkered with the seemingly unambiguous concept of time since the beginning of the previous century. Art, film, and music make abstract notions of time tangible and comprehensible, and manipulate how we experience it. The ongoing development and implementation of technology constantly challenge, change and undermine our perception of time. This book is, in a sense, a homage to the human experience of time. One half of this anthology consists of articles and essays dealing with conceptions and imaginings of time in the fields of technology, culture and literature. The other half, collects interviews, with composers and performing musicians, concerning their intimate knowledge of working with time.

Travelling Time 

W. Todd Martin

This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories

Katherine Mansfield

Acclaimed stories by the influential Modernist author include "Prelude," a reminiscence of her New Zealand girlhood, in addition to "The Garden Party," "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped," "Bliss," and others.

The Best Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Reveals that James Joyce's Ulysses can be seen as a guerrilla text written to resist colonialism.

The Subaltern Ulysses

Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. The Speed Handbook is a virtuoso exploration of Huxley’s claim. Enda Duffy shows how the experience of speed has always been political and how it has affected nearly all aspects of modern culture. Primarily a result of the mass-produced automobile, the experience of speed became the quintessential way for individuals to experience modernity, to feel modernity in their bones. Duffy plunges full-throttle into speed’s “adrenaline aesthetics,” offering deft readings of works ranging from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, through J. G. Ballard’s 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 speed’s 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.

Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism

The Speed Handbook

Enda Duffy

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