TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fisch,Michael
TI  - An anthropology of the machine: Tokyo's commuter train network 
SN  - 9780226558691
AV  - HE5059.T6 F57 2018eb
U1  - 388.4/20952 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Railroads
KW  - Japan
KW  - Tokyo
KW  - Commuting traffic
KW  - Urban transportation
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Transports urbains
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Japon
KW  - T�oky�o
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Industries
KW  - Transportation
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TRANSPORTATION
KW  - Public Transportation
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Finessing the interval -- Inhabiting the interval -- Operation without capacity -- Gaming the interval -- Forty-four minutes -- Ninety seconds
N2  - 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
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