Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Between Mercury and Jove -- Part One - Speed: Towards Velocentric Perspective -- Chapter One: "To Fly like Mercury": Acceleration and Modern Experience -- 1. The Mercurial Start: "In a stage coach (if God permits)" -- 2. "Catch Me Who Can": Fast-forwarding and Velocitization of Culture -- 3. "Faster!… faster still!": Car Culture and the Theology of Speed -- Conclusions -- Chapter Two: Streamlined Culture and the Rise of the Mis-man -- 1. "Speed in a straight line": New Conquests -- 2. Speed Now: In the Culture of Disappearing Stairs -- Conclusions -- Part Two - Slow Time and Alternative Hedonism -- Chapter Three: "To Sit like Jove": Slowness and Everyday Resistance -- 1. "But a different need is spreading": From Speedsters to Slowniks -- 2. Theorizing the Slow: An Overview -- Conclusions -- Chapter Four: The Temporality of (Other) Pleasures -- 1. Between the Pleasures of Speed and Alternative Hedonism -- 2. Slow Living and New Representations of Pleasure -- Conclusions -- Part Three - The Other Speed: Cultural Practices and Representations -- Chapter Five: New Territoriality in the Age of Deterritorialization -- 1. New Territoriality -- 2. Territories of the Slow Self: Slow Home and Slow City -- 3. "The Copenhagen Treatment": From Vehicular to Pedestrian Culture -- 4. "Between the Buildings": Renewing Community -- Conclusions -- Chapter Six: Negotiating Mobility: On the Slow Move -- 1. New Tourism -- 2. The Return of the Repressed: Travelling in the Travelless Age -- 3. Smelling the Roses: From the Occularcentric to the Multisensory -- Conclusions -- Chapter Seven: "Relocation, Relocation":Slow Goes Pop -- 1. "[T]o the measure of a (slow) man": Alternative Hedonism under the Tuscan Sun -- 2. "Out of Your Townie Mind": The Rise of Slow Lit -- Conclusions -- Conclusions: Post-slow? Between Strategies and Props.

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