Auto couture: Thinking the car in post-war France

Article Abstract:

The diverse ways in which the car is termed to think with for a range of French intellectuals in the period spanning roughly from 1950 through to the 1970s are described. The car is understood variously as a convert vehicle of creeping Americanization and consumerization, a threatening object that obliterates nature, a harbinger of hyper-modern futures, and as a constitutive element of everyday practices.

France

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Automobilities: An introduction

Article Abstract:

An introduction to automobilities and the meaning of the term is described. There is a powerful socio-economic and technological complex at work sustaining the car. The report argues that road traffic injury should be seen alongside heart disease, cancer and stroke as a public health problem that could be prevented which responds well to intervention.

Health Care and Social Assistance, HEALTH SERVICES, Public Health Care, Drivers (Vehicles), Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation, Administration of Public Health Programs, Local and Suburban Transportation, Health Programs-Total Govt, Administration of Human Resource Programs, Health Programs, Health aspects, Influence, Public health, Motor vehicle drivers, Traffic accidents, Automobile drivers

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Three ages of the automobile: The cultural logics of the car

Article Abstract:

It is proposed that in the age of mass individuality, the car was a reified consumer commodity, as postulated by the theory of the Frankfurt school. It served to obscure qualitative class differences underneath the illusion of mass individuality, in which consumers varied by the quantity of desired automotive traits they could afford.

United Kingdom

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