The Ideological Function of Cars

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November 3, 2015

 

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The function of a car at its historical conception was a response to peoples' need to travel faster and easier. While it may seem neutral and unbiased, a car, as an alternative to other modes of transportation, carries immediate allusions to class in society. Its purpose goes beyond simply transportation...
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Its purpose goes beyond simply transportation. Its ideological function as a mythologized object creates forms of inclusion and exclusion accepted as true and natural to modern society. The details of the type of car or its use are part of the intersectionality of class, race, and gender. Cars can be a form of affiliation or individuation but they ultimately create and reinforce the cycle of society; what Louis Althusser refers as the reproduction of the conditions of production...
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