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Automobility And The Future Of Transport, Lukas Koch
Automobility And The Future Of Transport, Lukas Koch
English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)
This article explores the history of automobility as ideology, its effect on individuals and its possible future. In the USA in the early 20th century the automobile served to solve the crisis of individualism, created by Taylorism and the rise of the scientific method. To the people of the time the car was associated with freedom and individuality. Freedom through the automobile however was and would never be universally accessible. Furthermore examining the real life consequences of increasing mobility reveals unforeseen effects, mainly pollution, traffic and fragmentation of society. This paper proposes adoption of programs favoring sustainable modes of transportation …
Fading Landscapes: The Culture Of Exile And The Open Road, Marc T. Rentschler
Fading Landscapes: The Culture Of Exile And The Open Road, Marc T. Rentschler
English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)
This article seeks to analyze the complex relationship between material culture and hegemonic constructions of ideology along with their tendency to make their way into larger institutional apparatuses of society. For this study this interaction is explored through the symbolic construction of the american roadways and a selective. Drawing on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Baudrillard’s America, and William Least Heat Moon’s Blue Highways, this work attempts to combine critical perspectives on the formation of public space with the events of these works in order to formulate how the ideological values which are subsumed by the representational space of ‘The …