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Driving in the City
Abstract
This article argues that de Certeau’s understanding of walking as the archetypal transhuman practice of making the city habitable cannot hold in a post-human world. By concentrating on the practices of driving, I argue that other experiences of the city can have an equal validity. In other words, de Certeau’s work on everyday life in the city needs to be reworked in order to take into account the rise of automobility. The bulk of this article is devoted to exploring how that goal might be achieved, concentrating in particular on how new knowledge like software and ergonomics has become responsible for a large-scale spatial reordering of the city which presages an important change in what counts as making the city habitable.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Thrift, N.
- Venue
- Theory, Culture & Society
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2004-10
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 4-5
- Pages
- 41-59
- ISSN
- 0263-2764 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-3616
- OpenAlex
- W2103192915
- Cited by
- 316
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 67.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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