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Hardcover On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary Book

ISBN: 0231168322

ISBN13: 9780231168328

On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary

(Part of the Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts Series)

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Speed is an obvious facet of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and antimodern. Challenging a long tradition of thought, Lutz Koepnick instead proposes we understand slowness as a strategy of the contemporary--a decidedly modern practice that gazes firmly at and into the present's velocity.

As he engages with late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century art, photography, video, film, and literature,...

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