Marzena Kubisz is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures at the University of Silesia (Poland). Her research focuses on body, multiculturalism and the social impacts of speed. She is the author of Strategies of Resistance. Body, Identity and Western Culture (Peter Lang, 2003).

• Contents: Slowness – Simplicity and resistance – The temporality of (other) pleasure – New territoriality in an age of deterritorialization – Slow London – Slow travel – Slow lit – Post-slow – Speed – Velocentrism – Acceleration and modern experience – Streamlined culture and the rise of the mis-man.

Marzena Kubisz is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures at the University of Silesia (Poland). Her research focuses on body, multiculturalism and the social impacts of speed. She is the author of Strategies of Resistance. Body, Identity and Western Culture (Peter Lang, 2003).

• Contents: Slowness – Simplicity and resistance – The temporality of (other) pleasure – New territoriality in an age of deterritorialization – Slow London – Slow travel – Slow lit – Post-slow – Speed – Velocentrism – Acceleration and modern experience – Streamlined culture and the rise of the mis-man.

Marzena Kubisz is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures at the University of Silesia (Poland). Her research focuses on body, multiculturalism and the social impacts of speed. She is the author of Strategies of Resistance. Body, Identity and Western Culture (Peter Lang, 2003).

• Contents: Slowness – Simplicity and resistance – The temporality of (other) pleasure – New territoriality in an age of deterritorialization – Slow London – Slow travel – Slow lit – Post-slow – Speed – Velocentrism – Acceleration and modern experience – Streamlined culture and the rise of the mis-man.