TAILIEUCHUNG - The City and the Car

Users who will use the system can be car owners, car drivers, inexperienced mechanical engineer, expert mechanical engineer and interested users, and students. Car owners may want to have the knowledge to know how to maintain their car in good condition. Drivers must have the knowledge to deal with the problem as fast as possible. Inexperienced mechanical engineer can use the system to gain more knowledge and improve their work performance. Experienced mechanical engineer can use the system to help them make better and faster decision making. Interested users who may not have their own car can use the system. | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Volume December 2000 The City and the Car MIMI SHELLER AND JOHN URRY Introduction According to Heidegger machinery unfolds a specific character of domination . a specific kind of discipline and a unique kind of consciousness of conquest over human beings quoted in Zimmerman 1990 214 . In the twentieth century this disciplining and domination through machine technology is most dramatically seen in the system of production consumption circulation location and sociality engendered by the motor car whirl Barthes describes as the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals 1972 88 . Indeed the car is a particularly good illustration of a putative globalization. One billion cars have been manufactured in the twentieth century. There are currently over 500 million cars roaming the world a figure that is expected to double by 2015 Shove 1998 . However the car is rarely discussed in the globalization literature see Albrow. 1996 although its specific character of domination is as global as the other great technological cultures of the twentieth century the cinema television and the computer which are seen as constitutive of global cultures. Contemporary global cities imd cities in general remain primarily rooted in and defined by automobility as much as by newer technologies. Thus to understand the ways in which social life might be reconfigured by new technologies of information and communication will require that social analysts take seriously their relation to the car. Yet the social sciences have generally ignored the motor car and its awesome consequences for social life. Three disciplines that ought to have examined the social impact of the car are industrial sociology the analyses of consumption practices and urban studies. Within industrial sociology there has been little examination of how the much-analysed mass production of cars has extraordinarily transformed social life. It did not see how the huge .

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