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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... considered . We can think of movement , then , as the dynamic equivalent of location in abstract space - contentless , apparently natural , and devoid of meaning , history , and ideology . The critiques of abstract space and location ...
... considered . We can think of movement , then , as the dynamic equivalent of location in abstract space - contentless , apparently natural , and devoid of meaning , history , and ideology . The critiques of abstract space and location ...
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... considered the representation and encoding of dance in the early twentieth century , it is not my argument that such strat- egies were entirely successful , nor that the outcomes were entirely negative . As recent accounts of ...
... considered the representation and encoding of dance in the early twentieth century , it is not my argument that such strat- egies were entirely successful , nor that the outcomes were entirely negative . As recent accounts of ...
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... considered a citizen . Here we see the United States exerting a form of " remote control " where immigrants were dealt with before they even left the shore of their country of origin . This mode of controlling international migration ...
... considered a citizen . Here we see the United States exerting a form of " remote control " where immigrants were dealt with before they even left the shore of their country of origin . This mode of controlling international migration ...
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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