Mis-Carriage of Justice

Longer thoughts on the moral difficulties baked into mass automobility

I was asked by an editor at Plough to write about cars and urbanism through the lens of technology awhile back, I accepted, and that piece was recently published.

I observed the prompt to some extent—a few technology analogies—but I really delved into a couple of European philosophers’ writing on the automobile from the 1970s. One was a Marxist-ish polit…