Richard Randell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Randell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Randell |
| SIGNATURE | RANDELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Webster University Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5672-0803 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Automobility violence
Although tobacco use and road fatalities were recognized as public health issues at roughly the same time, the public health responses have been very different. The accepted wisdom in public health policy is that access to tobacco should be limited, highly taxed, advertising prohibited, visual and textual warnings be mandatory on tobacco products, the obfuscation and lobbying efforts of the tobacco industry publicized. In this paper, we make the …
The politics of methodological reality practices of everyday life
This article develops an analytic of ontopolitical apparatuses through an ethnomethodologically informed study of the methodological reality practices that constitute everyday existence. Building on John Law's call for methodological interference in “reality-making practices,” we foreground how being is stabilized not by foundational ontologies but by professional and mundane ontography—the performative inscriptions through which worlds are enact…
Towards post-automobility
In this paper we make the case for conceptualizing automobility as a singular and enduring imaginary that is located in the present continuous tense. It is an imaginary composed not only of discourses, representations, images and visions but also the ostensible materiality of automobility. That imaginaryis the everyday, taken-for-granted reality of automobility. If we are to entertain hopes of living in a world absent the routine violence of auto…
The vermin of the street
Since the appearance of automobiles on public roads, violence has been a constant, intrinsic property of automobility. Carl Schmitt’s concept of a nomos, constructed on the basis of primordial, violent acts of land appropriation, equally describes the history and processes by which automobility has rhizomatically expanded across the globe to become a hegemonic mode of transportation and mobility. The nomos of automobility is a bracketed space whe…
Getting Behind the Object We Love the Most
Recounted through artifacts, primarily automobiles, but also photographs, video, text, and automobile related installations, Cars: Accelerating the Modern World presented a history of the automobile from its beginnings—a restored 1896 Benz—to an imagined future represented by a “flying car.” The exhibition promised to help us navigate possible car futures based on what we can learn from the past
Futuramas of the present
The visions surrounding “self-driving” or “autonomous” vehicles are an exemplary instance of a sociotechnical imaginary: visions of a future technology that has yet to be developed or is in the process of development. One of the central justifications for the development of autonomous vehicles is the claim that they will reduce automobility related death and injury. Central to this narrative is the assumption that more than 90% of road crashes ar…
No paradigm to mobilize
In an essay published in 2006 in Environment and Planning A and in a second essay published in 2016 in this journal, Mimi Sheller and John Urry have made the case for the emergence of a new social science paradigm – “the new mobilities paradigm”. Sheller and Urry argue that the spectrum of published mobility-related theory and empirical research, taken in its entirety, may be described as a paradigm. This use of the term “paradigm” only minimally…
The microsociology of automobility
Drivers and automobiles are frequently represented in the automobility studies literature as hybrid human–machine cyborg assemblages. A concurrent theme within the automobility literature has been the disciplinary processes by which the automobile self is constructed; here, however, it is assumed that the self to be investigated is the self of the driver, not the self of the car-driver entity. In this paper, a neo-Goffmanian account of the constr…
The microsociology of automobility
Drivers and automobiles are frequently represented in the automobility studies literature as hybrid human–machine cyborg assemblages. A concurrent theme within the automobility literature has been the disciplinary processes by which the automobile self is constructed; here, however, it is assumed that the self to be investigated is the self of the driver, not the self of the car-driver entity. In this paper, a neo-Goffmanian account of the constr…
The vermin of the street
Since the appearance of automobiles on public roads, violence has been a constant, intrinsic property of automobility. Carl Schmitt’s concept of a nomos, constructed on the basis of primordial, violent acts of land appropriation, equally describes the history and processes by which automobility has rhizomatically expanded across the globe to become a hegemonic mode of transportation and mobility. The nomos of automobility is a bracketed space whe…
Towards post-automobility
In this paper we make the case for conceptualizing automobility as a singular and enduring imaginary that is located in the present continuous tense. It is an imaginary composed not only of discourses, representations, images and visions but also the ostensible materiality of automobility. That imaginaryis the everyday, taken-for-granted reality of automobility. If we are to entertain hopes of living in a world absent the routine violence of auto…
Automobility violence
Although tobacco use and road fatalities were recognized as public health issues at roughly the same time, the public health responses have been very different. The accepted wisdom in public health policy is that access to tobacco should be limited, highly taxed, advertising prohibited, visual and textual warnings be mandatory on tobacco products, the obfuscation and lobbying efforts of the tobacco industry publicized. In this paper, we make the …
The microsociology of automobility
Drivers and automobiles are frequently represented in the automobility studies literature as hybrid human–machine cyborg assemblages. A concurrent theme within the automobility literature has been the disciplinary processes by which the automobile self is constructed; here, however, it is assumed that the self to be investigated is the self of the driver, not the self of the car-driver entity. In this paper, a neo-Goffmanian account of the constr…
No paradigm to mobilize
In an essay published in 2006 in Environment and Planning A and in a second essay published in 2016 in this journal, Mimi Sheller and John Urry have made the case for the emergence of a new social science paradigm – “the new mobilities paradigm”. Sheller and Urry argue that the spectrum of published mobility-related theory and empirical research, taken in its entirety, may be described as a paradigm. This use of the term “paradigm” only minimally…
Futuramas of the present
The visions surrounding “self-driving” or “autonomous” vehicles are an exemplary instance of a sociotechnical imaginary: visions of a future technology that has yet to be developed or is in the process of development. One of the central justifications for the development of autonomous vehicles is the claim that they will reduce automobility related death and injury. Central to this narrative is the assumption that more than 90% of road crashes ar…
Getting Behind the Object We Love the Most
Recounted through artifacts, primarily automobiles, but also photographs, video, text, and automobile related installations, Cars: Accelerating the Modern World presented a history of the automobile from its beginnings—a restored 1896 Benz—to an imagined future represented by a “flying car.” The exhibition promised to help us navigate possible car futures based on what we can learn from the past
Towards post-automobility
In this paper we make the case for conceptualizing automobility as a singular and enduring imaginary that is located in the present continuous tense. It is an imaginary composed not only of discourses, representations, images and visions but also the ostensible materiality of automobility. That imaginaryis the everyday, taken-for-granted reality of automobility. If we are to entertain hopes of living in a world absent the routine violence of auto…
The vermin of the street
Since the appearance of automobiles on public roads, violence has been a constant, intrinsic property of automobility. Carl Schmitt’s concept of a nomos, constructed on the basis of primordial, violent acts of land appropriation, equally describes the history and processes by which automobility has rhizomatically expanded across the globe to become a hegemonic mode of transportation and mobility. The nomos of automobility is a bracketed space whe…
Automobility violence
Although tobacco use and road fatalities were recognized as public health issues at roughly the same time, the public health responses have been very different. The accepted wisdom in public health policy is that access to tobacco should be limited, highly taxed, advertising prohibited, visual and textual warnings be mandatory on tobacco products, the obfuscation and lobbying efforts of the tobacco industry publicized. In this paper, we make the …
The politics of methodological reality practices of everyday life
This article develops an analytic of ontopolitical apparatuses through an ethnomethodologically informed study of the methodological reality practices that constitute everyday existence. Building on John Law's call for methodological interference in “reality-making practices,” we foreground how being is stabilized not by foundational ontologies but by professional and mundane ontography—the performative inscriptions through which worlds are enact…
Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (3 works)