Modernity has long been equated with motion, travel, and change, from Marx s 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 Deleuze s nomadology to James Clifford s traveling cultures. John Culbert, in contrast, argues that the key texts of modernity and postmodernity may be approached through figures and narratives of paralysis: motionis no more defining of modern travel than fixations, resistance, and impasse; concepts and figures...