| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 302 pages) |
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text file rdaft |
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(pdf) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index. |
| Access |
Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyo's commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on Earth. In An Anthropology of the Machine , Michael Fisch provides a nuanced perspective on how Tokyo's commuter train network embodies the lived realities of technology in our modern world. Drawing on his fine-grained knowledge of transportation, work, and everyday life in Tokyo, Fisch shows how fitting into a system that operates on the extreme edge of sustainability can take a physical and emotional toll on a community while also creating a collective way of life--one with unique limitations and possibilities. An Anthropology of the Machine is a creative ethnographic study of the culture, history, and experience of commuting in Tokyo. At the same time, it is a theoretically ambitious attempt to think through our very relationship with technology and our possible ecological futures. Fisch provides an unblinking glimpse into what it might be like to inhabit a future in which more and more of our infrastructure--and the planet itself--will have to operate beyond capacity to accommodate our ever-growing population. |
| Note |
Publisher metadata. |
| Subject |
Railroads -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Commuting traffic.
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Urban transportation -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Tokyo.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9780226558691 (e-pub) |
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9780226558417 (print) |
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