posted on 2024-11-14, 06:06authored byGeorgine Clarsen
Since their development precisely spans this centuny, it seems to me no coincidence that there has been a renewed interest in cars at this time. The ways that the automobile has been celebrated as a 'birth' at the end of the last century, and the dystopian future that it has more often come to represent at the end of this one, bracket the extremes of optimism and pessimism that the technology can evoke.
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Citation
Clarsen, G. W. (1999). Car Culture [Book Review]. Meanjin, 58 (1), 178-183.