{"id":1097,"date":"2016-10-09T10:25:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T09:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cemore.azurewebsites.net\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2022-08-01T15:07:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T14:07:55","slug":"what-is-it-about-the-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/what-is-it-about-the-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it about the bike?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 Cycling and Society Conference here at Cemore\u00a0has been inspiring. Thank you Cosmin, Katerina and Denis!<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that has me thinking is the relationship between technologies of mobility, power, the good society and utopian momentum. The question \u2018What is it about the bike?\u2019 raised a number of really interesting responses. Here\u2019s a list from my notes:<\/p>\n<p>Autonomy<br \/>\nLets you see hidden bits of the city<br \/>\nPain<br \/>\nRhythm<br \/>\nSimplicity with a history of simplicity<br \/>\nBalance<br \/>\nExposure<br \/>\nInclusive<br \/>\nBecomes part of you<br \/>\nAlmost human<br \/>\nTouched by you<br \/>\nIndependence<br \/>\nEccentricity<br \/>\nFreedom<br \/>\nA wider roaming range<br \/>\nMundane<br \/>\nOut of synch with the momentum of automobility<br \/>\nAuthenticity<br \/>\nAffording the joy of flow<br \/>\nContinuous movement<br \/>\nPlayful, associate with childhood<br \/>\nRisky<br \/>\nZen-like self-abnegation<br \/>\nChallenges hegemonic things<br \/>\nFixed gear means you\u2019ve got to keep moving<br \/>\nSkill<br \/>\nUn-gendering<br \/>\nThe histories of all these things<\/p>\n<p>If you think of things to add, tweet @mbuscher #aboutthebike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 Cycling and Society Conference here at Cemore\u00a0has been inspiring. Thank you Cosmin, Katerina and Denis! One of the things that has me thinking is the relationship between technologies of mobility, power, the good society and utopian momentum. The question \u2018What is it about the bike?\u2019 raised a number of really interesting responses. Here\u2019s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":1098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobilities-general","tag-cycling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}