Autopia : cars and culture / edited by Peter Wollen, Joe Kerr

Includes bibliographical references and index

Consists of more than 25 newly commissioned essays, as well as a number of reprinted key texts, by writers, critics, historians, artists and film-makers, all of whom share not just an interest in, but a critical concern with, the consequences of a century of driving. In Autopia the car is treated not as a technological fetish object or as an instrument of danger. Instead it is examined as a hugely important determinant of 20th-century culture, neither wholly good nor an unmitigated disaster