Post-Automobility Futures: Technology, Power, and Imaginaries

This book presents an in-depth phenomenological and deconstructive analysis of the automobility imaginary, which is none other than the mundane automobility reality within which we dwell in everyday life. A successful transition to a post-automobility future will require new ways of thinking about and conceptualizing automobility, one of the most significant and powerful imaginaries of contemporary neo-liberalism. This book offers such a view by reconceptualizing automobility in its entirety as both an imaginary and a dreamscape.


In order to address the challenges, externalities and tragedies that automobility has brought upon us, automobility, we argue, must end as we know it.

Robert Braun is senior researcher at the Institute forAdvanced Studies in Vienna.
Richard Randell is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.