Post-Automobility Futures - Technology, Power, and Imaginaries

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.

List 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

About the author

Robert Braun is senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. His main research interest is the politics of knowledge and societal transformation. His current research focuses on the transition to autonomous mobility and responsible research and innovation. His latest work includes: Privacy, Democracy and Social Fairness In The Future Road Transport System, in Alonso Raposo, M. and Ciuffo, B. (Eds.) The Future of Road Transport - Implications of An Automated, Connected, Low-Carbon and Shared Mobility (2019) and Corporate Stakeholder Democracy (2019).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Braun, Robert Randell Braun, Braun Robert, Richard Randell, Randell Richard
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781538158852
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5885-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Ethics & moral philosophy