Post-Automobility Futures: Technology, Power, and Imaginaries

by Robert Braun Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Richard Randell professor, Webster University, Geneva

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538158869
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/04/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	214
File size:	597 KB

About the Author

Robert Braun is senior researcher at the Institute forAdvanced Studies in Vienna.

Richard Randell is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Robert Braun and Richard Randell address a consequential and timely topic, one that has been on the tips of our tongues for quite a while now, and it does so from a unique perspective by applying a wide range of social scientific and philosophical lenses to systems of automobility. The strength of the book lies in its sociological and philosophical framing, which promises to generate theoretical insights that can be applied beyond the practical matters of designing or deconstructing car futures.

Jennie Germann Molz

Robert Braun and Richard Randell address a consequential and timely topic, one that has been on the tips of our tongues for quite a while now, and it does so from a unique perspective by applying a wide range of social scientific and philosophical lenses to systems of automobility. The strength of the book lies in its sociological and philosophical framing, which promises to generate theoretical insights that can be applied beyond the practical matters of designing or deconstructing car futures.

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