The 'system' of automobility

Article Abstract:

The ways to theorize and conceptualize the nature of the 'car system' that is a particular key, element in globalization is described. The notion of systems as self-reproducing or autopoietic is used to understand the origins of the 20th-century car system, and especially how its awesome pattern of path dependency was established and exerted a particularly powerful and self-expanding pattern of domination across the globe.

Evaluation

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Automotive emotions: Feeling the car

Article Abstract:

The car cultures within a broader physical/material relational settings that includes both human bodies and car bodies, and the relation between them and the spaces through which they move is located through a cross examination, the aesthetic and especially kinaesthetic dimensions of automotibity. This approach helps to re-evaluate the ethical dimensions of car consumption and the moral economies of car use.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Usage

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Mobile transformations of 'Public' and 'Private' life

Article Abstract:

The static conceptions regarding public and private life are criticized. The massive changes occurring in the nature of both public and private life and especially of the relations between them are also discussed.

United States, Comparative analysis, Life style, Lifestyles

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