Chapter 5

Chapter five embarks from within a forty-four minute gap opened within the margin of indeterminacy as a result of a commuter suicide. The central concern in the chapter is to understand how the commute collective attends to the challenge presented by the commuter suicide in general and, more specifically, the body on the tracks. While the former, it is shown, is treated within the collective as an event that threatens the network’s operational integrity, the latter resonates on far less explicit level as a disorder that challenges the collective’s ethical integrity. The result is a collective that is functionally coherent but ethically impaired.

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