The research project "Autopia | fellow-passengers in a truck" comes through incentives and topics found in our way, without being planned or formed from the beginning of the reasearch. The sequence and connection of the concepts and readings begin and derive from a truck vehicle. Through the practical part of the project, one and a half trip (one complete and one incomplete) with a truck, we observe, analyze, collect and seek all these theoretical elements that characterize the transitional and ephemeral conditions experienced by the driver in the vehicle. The basic components of the research are the concepts of non-place, man-machine, capsule, dwelling, nomadism, voyage
As a book, as an object, the project can be considered as a collection of inserts (photos, texts, narratives) and a mix of the concepts it deals with. The chapters are independent small issues; the reader has the possibility to read them in any order he/she wants. The chapters/issues included are the following:
Introduction/Bibliography
Non-places
V for Voyage
Humachine
Freeways
Capsula
Truck
Films
Narratives
The predominance of the truck in relation to all other vehicles, and the special relationship of the driver to the space of the truck, made us choose it as our paradigm. On the road, in the transition, we change position on the map, we travel, or not travel as Deleuze says. Everything, including this project, happens without stability, in liquidity, in the intermediate.
