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Writes: “It took me forty years and the Digital Revolution to realize that
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In his new 2014 preface, however, Schivelbusch Words, transforming the up-and-down movement of the steam-driven piston Rotary motion, “a kind of mechanization of the mill race.” In other Of the steam engine– and ultimately the railroads– was the introduction of In the steam engine, the prime mover of industry, these two combined to produce energy in theoretically unlimited amounts.” The Industrial Revolution, generally seem as having begun in the the last third of the eighteenth century, was a complex process of denaturalization… Iron became the new industrial building material, coal the new combustible. “Next to wood, water and wind power were the main energy sources of pre-industrial economic life. With a detailed discussion of the history of the steam engine. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch opens My sense of this is a compression of time and a curious elasticity of space of oftentimes disquieting and othertimes most welcome transparency and that constant pull to the little screens that, so it would seem, we all feel these days, whenever, wherever. There are indeed many parallels, however, to start with, t he literature on Far West Texas is exponentially greater and– more to the point– since the time I was traveling in Baja California, the experience of traveling itself has been radically transformed by the Digital Revolution. In recent weeks, this question of machineĮvolution, to my surprise, has begun to interest me intensely.Īt first I had thought of this book I am writing about Far West Texas as a doppelgänger to my 2002 memoir of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, Miraculous Air, for the ecosystems and early exploration and mission histories of these two regions have many parallels. Points along / on the same trajectory of machine evolution?” Originally published as Geschichte der Eisenbahnreise, the English translation came out in 1979 I read the 2014 edition with a new preface, “World Machines: The Steam Engine, the Railway, and the Computer,” in which Schivelbusch asks,Īccelerator of the Industrial Revolution, and the computer occupy different River Steamboat and Canal Packet as Models for the American Railroad Carĩ.Of late: The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, a German historian and scholar of cultural studies. 目录Įxcursus: The Space of Glass Architecture 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society.