This book presents an in-depth phenomenological and deconstructive analysis of the automobility imaginary, which is none other than the mundane automobility reality within which we dwell in everyday life. A successful transition to a post-automobility future will require new ways of thinking about and conceptualizing automobility, one of the most significant and powerful imaginaries of contemporary neo-liberalism. This book offers such a view by reconceptualizing automobility in its entirety as both an imaginary and a dreamscape. In order to address the challenges, externalities and tragedies that automobility has brought upon us, automobility, we argue, must end as we know it.
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By Robert Braun and Richard Randell
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION
PART 1. ONTOLOGIES OF AUTOMOBILITY
CHAPTER 1. AN ILL-NAMED THING: FROM MODE OF TRANSPORTATION TO AUTOMOBILITY STUDIES
CHAPTER 2. THE AUTOMOBILITY IMAGINARY
PART 2. RECONFIGURING THE ILL-NAMED THING
CHAPTER 3. DROMOS: THE VIOLENCE OF SPEED
CHAPTER 4. THEATRON: THE SPECTACLE
CHAPTER 5. HYPNOS: THE AUTOMOBILITY DREAMSCAPE
CHAPTER 6. NOMOS: THE APPROPRIATION OF SPACE
PART 3. FUTURE AUTOMOBILITIES AND POST-AUTOMOBILITY
CHAPTER 7. NOMOCRACY
CHAPTER 8. POST-AUTOMOBILITY
EPILOGUE