Abstract:
Iggy Pop and Richard Sennett share neither career nor lifestyle but they both parleyed the observation that driving a car changes one’s relationships with others. Just as buying at a supermarket is a different form of social interchange to bargaining, a public act that takes place directly with another, being a driver is a different experience to being in a crowded railway carriage or among a jostling mix of pedestrians. Yet driving a car does occasion moments of contact, even intimacy, however much a windscreen and a sense of control stimulates the dream of autonomy.
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