Ebook Can We Support Ourselves by Driving to Each Other ?
"Can we support ourselves by driving to each other ?" is a chreseological work, that is, a study of the uses and users of both private and public transportation. It is written in an as-if musical suite form with themes and counter themes, in several tiers; not unlike a Les contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach) fairy tale of dream, dawn and awakening, albeit based strictly on scientific research. The idea was to try to avoid the "ideal versus reality" model or ideology criticism, substituting post or a-modern forms for it instead: fragment, trope, division. Though there may perhaps be traces of relapse, the ideal sought after is "irony versus reality", where they coincide and where they differ, rather than "ideal versus reality".
CONTENTS
Summary
I Apertura
Political Things
An Incomplete Cathedral
II Allegro Sognando Ma Non Troppo
Autopsy of a Dream
A Dis-cuss-sect-ion of 25 Assertions About the Automobile
(l) The Automobile Eliminates or Expands Local
"Gemeinschaft"
(2) The Automobile Allows for Increased Independence
and a Larger Radius of Action
(3) The Automobile Gives You Freedom
(4) The Automobile is an Equalizer, Now That Almost
Everyone Has a Car
(5) The Automobile Brings the Family Together:
On Four Wheels
(6) Mastering the Automobile is a Demanding and
Challenging Task
(7) The Automobile Makes Life Easier
III Lento Grave
The Automobile, Health, The Environment
IV Vivace Risvegliando
An Iron Cage of Irrationality
1. Esposizione:
(8) In Its External Form the Automobile Resembles a
Giant, Brachycephalic Skull with a Low Forehead
(9) The Automobile is Space-ineffective - And it Hides Us
(10) ‘No One Can Bother Me Here’
(ll) The Automobile Weakens the Senses
(12) The Automobile is a Mobile Extension of the
Home
(13) The Parking Garage is a Meta- or Super-Entrance
2. Stringendo:
Freedom and Compulsion in the Traffic Jam
Stretto:
(14) The Cummuter Driver is Not Under Anyone's
Supervision
(15) The Traffic Jam is More Egalitarian the Slower
it Moves
(16) The Traffic Jam Spreads the Responsibility -
It is not the Individual's Fault
(17) The Traffic Jam, the Automobile Itself Makes Us
Passive
Invertito:
(18) The Automobile Hinders a Traditional Form of Crime Control
(19) The Male has Become an Automobile
(20) Rush Hour Traffic, Traffic Itself, Provides
Service Only When it Stops
(21) "Sneak-Privatization"
(22) It is Impossible to Control Traffic
3. Finale Estenso:
(23) The Automobile Creates a Middle Class
(24) GMC: General Motors Corp. = General Middle Class
(25) Car Salesmen's Tactics: A Precedent for the Sale of
Other Products
V Largo Gran Vista:
The Automobile and Theory
VI Andantino Alla Marcia:
Air, Sea, Rails
Speed Takes the Trains
Our Daily Tram
A Collective Habitus
The Collective as a Liminal Phase
Anguish of the Quasi-Acquaintance
VII Allegro Misterioso. Risoluto. Finale.:
Why the Automobile ?
The Automobile Industry Larger than Agriculture
AUtopia: The Automobile = Progress
The in-Car-nation of success
Does a Reduction in Private Transportation Necessarily
Mean Economic Crisis ?
VIII Coda
Bibliography
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