Driver's License: Object Lessons - Softcover

Castile, Meredith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1628929138 ISBN 13: 9781628929133

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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A lively exploration of how the driver's license encapsulates the contradictory values of contemporary culture and identity, and especially freedom and security, mobility and restriction.

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Meredith Castile is a content strategist at Google. She did her graduate studies in English and comparative literature at Stanford University. Driver's License was written during her years living in Vienna, Austria.

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A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver's license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is youth's pass to regulated vice-cigarettes, bars, tattoo parlors, casinos, strip joints, music venues, guns. In its more recent history, the license has become increasingly associated with freedom's flipside: screening. The airport's heightened security checkpoint. Controversial ID voting laws. Federally mandated, anti-terrorist driver's license re-designs. The driver's license encapsulates the contradictory values and practices of contemporary American culture-freedom and security, mobility and checkpoints, self-definition and standardization, democracy and exclusion, superficiality and intimacy, the stable self and the self in flux.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1628929138
• ISBN 13: 9781628929133
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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