The Phenomenology of Traffic: Experiencing Mobility in Ho Chi Minh City

ISBN-13: 9780367218164 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 160 str.

Glenn Wyatt

Opis

The book delves into the affective, embodied, and sensory dimensions of traffic and urban mobility. It brings together key phenomenological and post-phenomenological readings to challenge taken for granted assumptions of urban traffic.

Spis treści

1. The Experience of Traffic in Ho Chi Minh City  2. Towards a Metaphysics of Experiential Complexity - Methodology  3. History, Capitalism and the Ethics of Kinetics  4. The Bifurcation of Nature: Matters of Fact and Matters of Concern  5. Complexity and Computer Modelling of Traffic  6. The Character of Character  7. What is a Car? - Plato’s Car - Schrödinger's Car  8. The Subject in Traffic  9. Lures for Driving and Infrastructures of the Ephemeral - The Thick Present of a Traffic Event  10. The Emergence of Order - Traffic Light Entanglements

O autorze

Glenn Wyatt is a designer, illustrator and lecturer with an interest in books, art, music, philosophy and affect. He has lived in many countries, including Vietnam, Morocco, Italy and Thailand.