ontological issue that cannot be reduced to epistemological or ethical considerations. In modernity, human beings stand within a technologically enframed world, a situation that both opens and limits their horizons. The Gestell of a given historical epoch
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State of Uncertainty
Educating the First Railroaders in Central Sakha (Yakutiya)
Sigrid Irene Wentzel
ontologies. 11 They produce “novel configurations of the world,” 12 such as—in this case study—learning how to professionally and socially perform railroading. Brian Larkin introduced the notion of “poetics” to refer to infrastructure's ability to reach out
Nighttime Navigating
Moving a Container Ship through Darkness
Maria Borovnik
Perception of the Environment , 198. 12 Philip Steinberg and Kimberley Peters, “Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33, no. 2 (2015): 247–264, here 250; see also
Lucy Baker, Paola Castañeda, Matthew Dalstrom, Ankur Datta, Tanja Joelsson, Mario Jordi-Sánchez, Jennifer Lynn Kelly, and Dhan Zunino Singh
, and place. A Multi-scalar Engagement with Children's Mobilities Toward a Mobile Ontology in Exploring Childhood Lesley Murray and Susana Cortés-Morales, Children's Mobilities: Interdependent, Imagined, Relational (London: Palgrave
Embodied Vibrations
Disastrous Mobilities in Relocation from the Christchurch Earthquakes, Aotearoa New Zealand
Gail Adams-Hutcheson
when they are suddenly halted or missing. The regular repetitive rhythms of life become a “part of the way things are,” which can lead to an “ontological predictability and security.” 26 Lack of these organizational processes of rhythms and habit can
Introduction to the Issue
Encountering Hospitality and Hostility
Mette Louise Berg and Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
’s article, which traces the sense of “ontological (in)security” experienced by former Burundian refugees in Tanzania, even following acquisition of legal citizenship in that country. The article traces the strategies for securing belonging adopted by former
Introduction
Autonomous Driving and the Transformation of Car Cultures
Jutta Weber and Fabian Kröger
reproductive task, the gender script of this vision fits into the image of hegemonic masculinity. Manderscheid reflects further on the ontological status of both visions, identifying them as imagined futures of corporate interests that neglect the shaping
Autonomous Vehicles and Gender
A Commentary
Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder
Casey Boyle, “Introduction: Rhetorical Ontology, or How to do Things with Things,” in Rhetoric, Though Everyday Things , ed. Scot Barnett and Casey Boyle (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016), 1–16, here 4 (this and the previous quotation
Alejandro Miranda
ontological framework is that it conceptualizes social existence as a mesh of practices and material arrangements. 13 Interrogating practice brings focus to the processes through which the articulation of elements is configured. These configurations encompass
Masculinity and Autonomous Vehicles
A Degendered or Resegregated Future System of Automobility?
Dag Balkmar and Ulf Mellström
—perspektiv på yrkeskultur och genus (Umeå: Umeå University, 2003), 92. 37 Ulf Mellström, “ From a Hegemonic Politics of Masculinity to an Ontological Politics of Intimacy and Vulnerability? Ways of Imagining through Karen Barad’s Work,” in “Quantum