Hofmeyr 2013
From Commonplace Book
Gandhi's Printing Press. Harvard UP, 2013
Introduction
4: These experiments unfolded in an age of vertiginous acceleration via trains, steamships, and telegraphs, where, with mounting intensity, an industrialized information order bombarded readers with more and more printed matter. Ever-briefer media genres like the headline, summary, and extract speeded up tempos of reading. In Gandhi's view, such reading "macadamized" the mind (to use an image from Thoreau that appeared in Indian Opinion on June 10, 1911) and reinforced the dangerous equation of speed with efficiency.
