Contesting the Radical Monopoly: a Critical View on the Motorized Culture from a Cyclonaut Perspective
In our motorized societies, the “radical monopoly” (Illich) of the automobile is the evidence that our engine culture dominates. At the socio-technical level, we are all beginning to be “motorcentric”, in the same way that we are egocentric, ethnocentric, and anthropocentric. I argue that traveling...
Main Author: | Damien Delorme |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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LED Edizioni Universitarie
2018-11-01
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Series: | Relations |
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Online Access: | http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/article/view/1345 |
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