"The different modes of transport that command greater speed point to how the world is experienced when organized on the fast-changing time-space-speed vectors. Space is conquered with the acceleration technology and the distances are measured on the basis of speed and not in spacial terms. In other words, the distance between two given points is measured by how fast one can reach a point rather than by the actual spatial distance. The speed at which we cover the distance--on foot, motor vehicle, train, and airplane--determines how we experience and remember the landscape en route, witness ordinary minute happenings, and interact with the people inhabiting those landscapes."
-ravinda kaur, "the last journey: exploring social class in the 1947 partition migration"
[courtesy Erica W.]
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