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. The thesis for seems to be that the railroad altered the traveler’s perceptions of space, time, distance, nature and the senses.
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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. General and Thematic - Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: Leamington Spa/Hamburg/New York: Berg publishers, 1986. 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. In the book, Schivelbusch can be said to move. 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. The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. 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 book addresses many different themes surrounding the introduction of the railway into the western lifestyle.
University of California Press, 1986 - Social Science - 203 pages. Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, 1941- Format: Book xvi, 203, 16 p. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space. Whilst Schivelbusch (1979) notes how the railway journey initially served to. 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. Available in the National Library of Australia collection. This chapter explores the social dimension of long distance railway. The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society.
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