Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization. Faden Authors Statement BACKGROUND Wolfgang Schivelbuschs book The Railway Journey. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of topics, including the changing perception of landscapes, the death of conversation while traveling, the problematic nature of the railway compartment, the space of glass architecture, the pathology of the railway journey, industrial fatigue and the history of shock, and the railroad and the city.īelonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. Tracking Theory The Synthetic Philosophy of The Glance By Eric S. Although the means of a quick and reliable mode of transport wasand is an important part of industrialization, it denaturalized anddesensualized the passengers (Schivelbusch 20). In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. The thesis for Schivelbusch’s book The Railway Journey seems to be that therailroad altered the traveler’s perceptions of space, time, distance, natureand the senses. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey.The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century, With a New Preface, University of California Press, 2014, 9780520282261 p., EAN : 9780520282261. But this was not always the case as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change-the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness-was very much a learned behavior. The Railway Journey The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern. General and Thematic - Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: Leamington Spa/Hamburg/New York: Berg publishers, 1986. But throughout the book, Schivelbusch describes.
I’ve always had a small personal fascination with the railways my father taking me on steam train rides and to museums since a young age. The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. Buy Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space - With New Preface 14 edition (9780520282261) by Wolfgang Schivelbusch for up to. The Railway Journey discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time and speed have been altered since the introduction of railway travel.
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