#temporality
Realizing Newton’s mechanics in the realm of transportation, the railroad creates conditions that will also ‘mechanize’ the travellers’ perceptions. According to Newton, 'size, shape, quantity, and motion’ are the only qualities that can be objectively perceived in the physical world. Indeed, those become the only qualities that the railroad traveller is now able to observe in the landscape he travels through. Smells, sounds, not to mention the synaesthetic perceptions that were part of travel in Goethe’s time, simply disappear.
–Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey
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