...Massimo Zucchetti The construction of the High Speed Railway (HSR, TAV in Italian) line Turin-Lyon in the Susa Valley (Italy) has long been surrounded by bitter controversies which do not give enough relevance to the most significant and technical aspects of the proposed project. The most relevant...

...George W. Williams Studies in Richard Hooker: Essays Preliminary to an Edition of His Works . Edited by Hill W. Speed . Cleveland : The Press of Case Western Reserve University , 1972 . Pp. 378 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 28o The South Atlantic...

...Calvin T. Ryan Copyright © 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 AMERICAN SPEED CALVIN T. RYAN ANY CONSIDERATION of the mortality statistics, or of the lY successful and the unsuccessful suicides, or of the appalling in­ crease in insanity in the United States, should awaken us...

... gathered speed and is changing the way we communicate and work, challenging the everyday life of our cities. As a result, we are confronted with a new topology of negotiation, participation, governance, and control in a virtual realm. With that, rights and duties of citizens are also being transformed...

...Massimiliano Tomba This article analyzes the current crisis in terms of a conflict of temporalities, arguing that the pace of the economic temporality and its speed in decision making clashes with the temporality of the state and the slowness of the democratic process of decision making...

... Johnson, and academic books such as Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed , by William Connolly, argue that everyday thought or thinking includes animal behaviors and responses. These authors suggest that these behaviors and responses should become the object of managed self-awareness. Their broadened...

... value-theory has been obscured by his own emphasis on the subjec­ tive factor, on human labor-power as the key factor in profit. Used without this subjective emphasis, however, Marx s value-theory becomes a theory of time and speed, in which time is, quite literally, compressed in favor of distance...

... this period of crisis, and the Unionists must be of one voice. To effect political unity, a Union state central committee was established, headed by George D. Prentice, editor of the Louisville Journal, John H. Harney, editor of the Louisville Democrat, and James Speed, a Louisville lawyer whose brother...

... society. (59) In other words, we make disability where there was none because of our need for speed. Our insistence on moving faster, both physically and in pro- duction, can actually slow us down as more people experience the drag caused by the friction of an impossible expectation of pace. And why must...

... to extract and exploit from it but also to divert attention from the creation of other populations as disposable. That is to say, the mechanisms of disaster capitalism itself, in this case the cycles of destruction and reinvestiture in Gaza, the speed of which have accelerated in the last decade (Feldman...

... are dispersed in a standardized arrangement, each immediately avail­ Gibson s Typewriter 631 able to the user. Information is rendered accessible, despite the lack of visual interaction. Spatially designated and discrete signs that, rather than increase in speed, was the real innovation of the type­ writer...

... Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” (Cogito ergo sum) as “I move, therefore I am” (Moveo ergo sum), and “I am how I move”? —Sigurd Bergmann, “The Beauty of Speed or the Discovery of Slowness—Why Do We Need...

... or founder, as other civilizations have foundered before us. The new speed of our new inventions has brought about a new speed of life and, consequently, a new idea of time itself. In the past the tempo of life was almost unvarying. A defined space took, with the slightest variation, the same time to cover...

... in terms of the volume of investment and the speed of its construction. The state-facilitated fixed infrastructural development of transportation, such as highways and railways, has been foundational to China s capitalist development. This underpins the fast expansion of a commercial logistics sector...

... leader and you will find that although his notions about scientific manage­ ment are a bit vague, he is certain of one thing, that here is a clever scheme of the employers to speed up their men and get increased work without additional compensation. Our attempt shall be impartially to weigh this plan...

...Florie Hutson Heyward Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 AMERICA S FIRST STEAM RAILROAD FLORIE HUTSON HEYWARD TTLEW ON the wings of the wind at the speed of fifteen J? to twenty-five miles per hour, annihilating time and space . . . darting like a live rocket scattering sparks...

... in defense, but the light and voice from outside reduce the speed of this gesture. The intensity of the beast is replaced by the commensura- Son of the Regiment 809 bility of presence and the acquisition of a meeting-space one which encompasses within its borders all the fragments associated...

...: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing . Translated by Hirano Cathy . Berkeley, CA : Ten Speed . Kondo Marie . 2016 . Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up . Translated by Hirano Cathy . Berkeley, CA : Ten Speed . Law John...

... Race­ horse would be that used to describe the ideal racehorse in the report of the Duke of Norfolk s Committee on The Pattern of Racing in August, 1965: The ideal racehorse has more speed than the best specialist sprinter, although he may never in fact race over a shorter distance than seven furlongs...

..., down near the stable. We re all right now. Full speed ahead. I have watched the cranes rise up like drifting ghosts and heard the tales of how they aid pilots in a fog. For the cranes, as every Mississippi dweller knows, are old steamboatmen, reincarnated so that they may stand all day with their feet...