On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western WorldOn the Move presents a rich history of one of the key concepts of modern life: mobility. Increasing mobility has been a constant throughout the modern era, evident in mass car ownership, plane travel, and the rise of the Internet. Typically, people have equated increasing mobility with increasing freedom. However, as Cresswell shows, while mobility has certainly increased in modern times, attempts to control and restrict mobility are just as characteristic of modernity. Through a series of fascinating historical episodes Cresswell shows how mobility and its regulation have been central to the experience of modernity. |
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... abstract space - contentless , apparently natural , and devoid of meaning , history , and ideology . The critiques of abstract space and location are well known . " Movement , as the dynamic equivalent of location , has not been given ...
... abstract space - contentless , apparently natural , and devoid of meaning , history , and ideology . The critiques of abstract space and location are well known . " Movement , as the dynamic equivalent of location , has not been given ...
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... abstract time and abstract space , so it was the source of new anxieties . As the railway historian Ralph Harrington put it , “ Railways could be seen as a symbol of progress , prom- ising economic and social betterment , democracy ...
... abstract time and abstract space , so it was the source of new anxieties . As the railway historian Ralph Harrington put it , “ Railways could be seen as a symbol of progress , prom- ising economic and social betterment , democracy ...
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... abstract movement itself from the confusing detail of actual bodies , Marey embarked on a process by which the body was dissolved and the image of movement became progressively more abstract and disem- bodied . His first move was to ...
... abstract movement itself from the confusing detail of actual bodies , Marey embarked on a process by which the body was dissolved and the image of movement became progressively more abstract and disem- bodied . His first move was to ...
Contents
An Interpretive Framework | 1 |
The Metaphysics of Fixity and Flow | 25 |
Mobility and Meaning in the Photography of Eadweard Muybridge and EtienneJules Marey | 57 |
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