ParalysesModernity has long been equated with motion, travel, and change, from Marxs critical diagnoses of economic instability to the Futurists glorification of speed. Likewise, metaphors of travel serve widely in discussions of empire, cultural contact, translation, and globalization, from Deleuzes nomadology to James Cliffords traveling cultures. John Culbert, in contrast, argues that the key texts of modernity and postmodernity may be approached through