Motion, Speed and Artificiality in Don De Lillo’s Cosmopolis (2003)
Motion, Speed and Artificiality in Don De Lillo’s Cosmopolis (2003)

Summary/Abstract: "In her study of the relationship between technology, culture and literature entitled Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America (Tichy 1987), Cecilia Tichy analyzes the role of speed and motion in the development of technology and culture and in the creation of Modernist sensibility. Giving a survey of technological progress in the USA, its connection with speed (the speed of production, cars, cinema, Kodak cameras, fast food and others) and its impact on the artistic vision of the world, she argues that “…speed and the belief in cultural acceleration were proclaimed from every quarter to be, for better or worse, the defining characteristic of the United States in the twentieth-century” (ib. 240)."

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