Michael W Pesses
Biographic Data
| ID | 232166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael W Pesses |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael W |
| FAMILY NAME | Pesses |
| SIGNATURE | PESSES M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Antelope Valley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9080-8702 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
So shiny, so chrome
Mad Max: Fury Road has been critiqued for its feminist, masculine, biblical, and environmental themes, but these critiques fail to engage with the connection between humans, machines, and the Earth in Fury Road. Nuclear technology may have produced the apocalyptic wasteland in which the film is set, but machines and industrial technology remain coupled to humanity to the point of symbiosis. Through the images of Fury Road, director George Miller …
Space After Deleuze
Arun Saldanha. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. xii and 232 pp., references, index. $114.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-44111-188-3).Tarrying with Gilles Deleuze is a rite of passage for human geograph
Road less traveled
The Negro Motorist Green Books were published by Victor H. Green & Company between 1936 and 1967. The books were references for black motorists on road trips to help them avoid dangerous towns, racist establishments, and the effects of a segregated America. This paper explores these books and situates them within the greater context of the American road. My argument is that they represent an entry for black motorists into the modern American auto…
Lectures on the Will to Know
Spaces of danger
Spaces of danger: culture and power in everyday, edited by Heather Merrill and Lisa M. Hoffman, Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2015, xiii + 326 pp., US$29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8203-4877-3 The publication of this book is fortuitous. Its introductory chapter recounts 2011 attack by Anders Breivik in Norway, as well as media and political interpretations of such a tragedy. Breivik, a far right terrorist, killed 77 people in an effort to…
Automobility, Vélomobility, American Mobility
Using the framework of 'automobility' as outlined by Sheller and Urry, this article uses the bicycle tour to explore one way the middle class mediates the automobile's dominance of the American landscape. The material history of the American road is first placed into the current automobilities discourse and then used to situate the bicycle tour. The romantic notion of lost public place in the city is seen as a driving force for escaping on two wh…
Automobility, Vélomobility, American Mobility
Using the framework of 'automobility' as outlined by Sheller and Urry, this article uses the bicycle tour to explore one way the middle class mediates the automobile's dominance of the American landscape. The material history of the American road is first placed into the current automobilities discourse and then used to situate the bicycle tour. The romantic notion of lost public place in the city is seen as a driving force for escaping on two wh…
So shiny, so chrome
Mad Max: Fury Road has been critiqued for its feminist, masculine, biblical, and environmental themes, but these critiques fail to engage with the connection between humans, machines, and the Earth in Fury Road. Nuclear technology may have produced the apocalyptic wasteland in which the film is set, but machines and industrial technology remain coupled to humanity to the point of symbiosis. Through the images of Fury Road, director George Miller …
Road less traveled
The Negro Motorist Green Books were published by Victor H. Green & Company between 1936 and 1967. The books were references for black motorists on road trips to help them avoid dangerous towns, racist establishments, and the effects of a segregated America. This paper explores these books and situates them within the greater context of the American road. My argument is that they represent an entry for black motorists into the modern American auto…
Automobility, Vélomobility, American Mobility
Using the framework of 'automobility' as outlined by Sheller and Urry, this article uses the bicycle tour to explore one way the middle class mediates the automobile's dominance of the American landscape. The material history of the American road is first placed into the current automobilities discourse and then used to situate the bicycle tour. The romantic notion of lost public place in the city is seen as a driving force for escaping on two wh…
Spaces of danger
Spaces of danger: culture and power in everyday, edited by Heather Merrill and Lisa M. Hoffman, Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2015, xiii + 326 pp., US$29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8203-4877-3 The publication of this book is fortuitous. Its introductory chapter recounts 2011 attack by Anders Breivik in Norway, as well as media and political interpretations of such a tragedy. Breivik, a far right terrorist, killed 77 people in an effort to…
Road less traveled
The Negro Motorist Green Books were published by Victor H. Green & Company between 1936 and 1967. The books were references for black motorists on road trips to help them avoid dangerous towns, racist establishments, and the effects of a segregated America. This paper explores these books and situates them within the greater context of the American road. My argument is that they represent an entry for black motorists into the modern American auto…
Lectures on the Will to Know
Space After Deleuze
Arun Saldanha. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. xii and 232 pp., references, index. $114.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-44111-188-3).Tarrying with Gilles Deleuze is a rite of passage for human geograph
So shiny, so chrome
Mad Max: Fury Road has been critiqued for its feminist, masculine, biblical, and environmental themes, but these critiques fail to engage with the connection between humans, machines, and the Earth in Fury Road. Nuclear technology may have produced the apocalyptic wasteland in which the film is set, but machines and industrial technology remain coupled to humanity to the point of symbiosis. Through the images of Fury Road, director George Miller …
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works)