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Insane Run - Railroad and Dark Modernity (Hardcover, New edition)
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Insane Run - Railroad and Dark Modernity (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Modernity in Question, 14
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This is a book about impending catastrophe. The metaphorical insane
"run" ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The book
focuses on European culture of the late nineteenth century and the
Polish contribution to it. The word "dark" used to describe
modernity is understood as a metaphor of gradual and permanent
devaluation of the idea of progress, as a fading hope for the
future of Europe as bright, predictable, prosperous, and safe. The
"darkening" also receives a literal sense. At the end of the
nineteenth century, darkness found its way back to the public space
- in the theaters, panoramas, dioramas, and "love tunnels", which
awaited the visitors of American and European amusement parks.
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