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    Riding the New York Subway

    The Invention of the Modern Passenger

    Part of Infrastructures

    Author Stefan Hohne
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    The MIT Press
    On sale Feb 16, 2021 | 400 Pages | 9780262361996
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    A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride.

    When the subway first opened with much fanfare on October 27, 1904, New York became a city of underground passengers almost overnight. In this book, Stefan Höhne examines how the experiences of subway passengers in New York City were intertwined with cultural changes in urban mass society throughout the twentieth century. Höhne argues that underground transportation--which early passengers found both exhilarating and distressing--changed perceptions, interactions, and the organization of everyday life.
    Preface to the English Edition xi
    Acknowledgments xv
    Introduction 1
    1 Utopian Passengers 21
    2 Machines and the Masses 73
    3 Techniques of the Senses 133
    4 Lonely Robots 187
    5 Crisis and Complaint 213
    6 Limits of Containment 257
    Notes 273
    Bibliography 339
    Index 367
    Stefan Höhne is a a cultural historian of urbanization and technology and a Mercator Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany.
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    A history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride.

    When the subway first opened with much fanfare on October 27, 1904, New York became a city of underground passengers almost overnight. In this book, Stefan Höhne examines how the experiences of subway passengers in New York City were intertwined with cultural changes in urban mass society throughout the twentieth century. Höhne argues that underground transportation--which early passengers found both exhilarating and distressing--changed perceptions, interactions, and the organization of everyday life.

    Table of Contents

    Preface to the English Edition xi
    Acknowledgments xv
    Introduction 1
    1 Utopian Passengers 21
    2 Machines and the Masses 73
    3 Techniques of the Senses 133
    4 Lonely Robots 187
    5 Crisis and Complaint 213
    6 Limits of Containment 257
    Notes 273
    Bibliography 339
    Index 367

    Author

    Stefan Höhne is a a cultural historian of urbanization and technology and a Mercator Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany.
    Stefan Hohne View titles by Stefan Hohne

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