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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... fact of displacement before the type , strategies , and social implications of that movement are considered . We can think of movement , then , as the dynamic equivalent of location in abstract space - contentless , apparently natural ...
... fact of displacement before the type , strategies , and social implications of that movement are considered . We can think of movement , then , as the dynamic equivalent of location in abstract space - contentless , apparently natural ...
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... fact , a denizen - a kind of local citizen whose identity was attached to a territory at the subnational level . The ... fact , sentenced to two kinds of coerced mobility , first during his time at hard labor and second in the process of ...
... fact , a denizen - a kind of local citizen whose identity was attached to a territory at the subnational level . The ... fact , sentenced to two kinds of coerced mobility , first during his time at hard labor and second in the process of ...
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... fact that the ground is bro- ken here , it is not pioneer work . Everyone knows what I am there for , they know what the paper is and what it stands for . For this reason , and because the sidewalk was not so crowded that I was not ...
... fact that the ground is bro- ken here , it is not pioneer work . Everyone knows what I am there for , they know what the paper is and what it stands for . For this reason , and because the sidewalk was not so crowded that I was not ...
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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