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The Morality of Mobility and Urban Imagination—Focusing on The Morality of Urban Mobility(Shane Epting, 2021)

  • Journal of Popular Narrative
  • 2022, 28(1), pp.187-215
  • DOI : 10.18856/jpn.2022.28.1.006
  • Publisher : The Association of Popular Narrative
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : January 1, 2022
  • Accepted : February 10, 2022
  • Published : February 28, 2022

Choe, Yeong-Seok 1

1연세대학교 글로벌인재대학

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ABSTRACT

This article aims to introduce philosophical insights into urban mobility proposed by Shane Epping’s The Morality of Urban Mobility(2021). Today, as urbanity has become a daily prerequisite for modern life, regardless of region and generation, it is not just up to urban engineers to think about urban mobility, but a problem for all of us who accepted ubiquitous mobility. The urbanity and mobiliy are the philosophy of this era. This book, published in 2021, gives moral dimensions to the problem of urban mobility, revealing points to consider when considering the urban transportation system. Epting regards urban mobility as a ‘mereology’. In mereologically inspired terms, the dynamics of each part, part-to-part, part-to-whole of the transportation system are revealed successfully. In this way, it is possible to find more flexible answers to the problems raised by urban mobility. The core of the side effects of current urban mobility is in the mono-technical saturation, and converting it to poly-technical dispersion becomes the key subject. To this end, what Epting proposes is ‘weak anthropocentrism’. Weak anthropocentrism is a view that should be premised when determining the moral priorities of the parts in urban mobility. The book says that the Morality dimension should be kept in mind when considering the conditions of urban mobility and parts of various scales. The philosophy of urban mobility requested by Epting can be placed side by side with the notion of ‘moral’ from Jacques Ranciere in that it drives to visualize the suppressed and excluded parts and relocate them according to moral ordering. This vision is expected to provide a significant view point for textual criticism of urban imagination.

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