A stunning exhibition catalogue to mark the centenary of the foundation of the Italian futurist movement, whose 1909 manifesto proclaimed "that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed." The book contains the first-ever anthology of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century statements on speed and slowness from Thomas de Quincey to F.T. Marinetti to J.G. Ballard, and it provides an innovative, synthetic, in-depth investigation into speed's significance with respect to modern life-time-space compression; and new ideas about pleasure, selfhood, and consumption; changes in the character and pace of urban and rural life; new modes of organizing, communicating, and sharing information