Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 214
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-5381-5885-2 • Hardback • March 2022 • $116.00 • (£89.00)
978-1-5381-5887-6 • Paperback • February 2024 • $40.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-5381-5886-9 • eBook • March 2022 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
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.
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
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, professor of sociology, College of the Holy Cross