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Utopias of fast and slow cycling
Cycling and Society Symposium
8 September 2017, London
Cosmin Popan
PhD Sociology
Lancaster University
Summary
u Various utopian representations of cycling worlds,
from the past, the present and the future
u The concept of utopia; 3 ways to think about
utopia: according to content, form and function
(Levitas 2010)
u Across history: both fast and slow utopias of
mobilities, production and consumption
u Biketopias: in artistic creations, everyday
practices, cycling development plans or
aspirations of ‘becoming modern’
3 distinctive biketopias
u First: the fast cycling utopias of late 19th century
u Second: the fast biketopias of the last 2 decades
u Third: the slow biketopias enabled by ecological
and anarchist movements
Bike boom 1890s. The safety bicycle
Bike boom 1890s. The safety bicycle
u ‘The constant innovation made cycling very
attractive, with frequent launches of new
products that improved – or claimed to improve –
on earlier models making them lighter and faster’
(Reid 2017).
Bike boom 1890s. Perfecting advertising
Bike boom 1890s. Perfecting advertising
u ‘The bicycle advanced the practice of advertising
by developing competitive content, using images
in posters, developing research techniques to
determine effectiveness, and supporting an
emerging media platform: magazines’ (Petty
1995).
u ‘The construction of a mobile subjectivity, the
development of an entire meaning system around
personal transportation, and the disciplining of
bodies and the environment in service of
autonomous mobility’ (Furness 2010).
Bike boom 1890s. Campaigning for
better roads
Bike boom 1890s. Campaigning for
better roads
u ‘The road is that physical sign or symbol by which
you will understand any age or people. If they
have no roads they are savages for the road is the
creation of man and a type of civilized society’
(League of American Wheelmen 1889).
Post-war period. Cycling as deviant
Post-war period. Cycling as deviant
Post-war period. Cycling as deviant
u Cyclists represented as ‘as boyish misfits and/or
sexually “deviant”’ (Furness 2010).
Future visions of cycle superhighways
Future visions of cycle superhighways
u ‘A bike is faster than a car over short urban
distances (5 km and even more in the case of
traffic jams)’ (European Commission).
u ‘Cyclists visit a neighbourhood’s shops more often
than drivers or public transport users, and spend
more overall. Cyclists travel shorter distances to
shop than drivers. Cycling can help save precious,
but endangered, pubs and small shops’ (Greater
London Authority 2013)
Post-apocalyptic biketopias
Post-apocalyptic biketopias
u Ken Avidor (2015) imagines a post-apocalyptic
world where the bicycle remains the only option
for transportation through the landscape of
rusting wreckage of the industrial age, which is
narrated through the eyes of a contemporary time
traveller to a biketopia placed sometime after
2050
u ‘In the not-so-distant future, when gasoline is no
longer available, humans turn to two-wheeled
vehicles to transport goods, seek glory, and
defend their remaining communities’ (Blue 2015).
Convivial biketopias
Convivial biketopias
u H.G. Wells ‘never associates bicycles with an
unhealthy mastery of space or a dangerous
shrinking of distance … The bicycle is, instead, an
ideal form of transportation that provides its
users with enough access to places like the
restorative countryside surrounding cities but that
does not promote people of different nationalities
and regions coming into excessive, dangerous
contact with one another’ (Withers 2016).
Convivial biketopias
Convivial biketopias
u ‘I really wanted to put in bold all the aspects of
the cyclists – elite athletes to cycle couriers,
commuters, bankers, delivery boys, mums with
kids, youths on stolen mountain bikes to
fashionistas and hipsters on fixed gear bikes’
(Gattoni 2012).
Conclusions
u The utopias of fast cycling seem to suggest that
no other mobile futures are available.
u Futures can be different, and the utopias of slow
cycling represent such reasons for hope.
u Change is not only desirable, but sometimes it is
possible.
Thank you!
Cosmin Popan
@CosminPopan
www.cosminpopan.co

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Utopias of fast and slow cycling

  • 1. Utopias of fast and slow cycling Cycling and Society Symposium 8 September 2017, London Cosmin Popan PhD Sociology Lancaster University
  • 2. Summary u Various utopian representations of cycling worlds, from the past, the present and the future u The concept of utopia; 3 ways to think about utopia: according to content, form and function (Levitas 2010) u Across history: both fast and slow utopias of mobilities, production and consumption u Biketopias: in artistic creations, everyday practices, cycling development plans or aspirations of ‘becoming modern’
  • 3. 3 distinctive biketopias u First: the fast cycling utopias of late 19th century u Second: the fast biketopias of the last 2 decades u Third: the slow biketopias enabled by ecological and anarchist movements
  • 4. Bike boom 1890s. The safety bicycle
  • 5. Bike boom 1890s. The safety bicycle u ‘The constant innovation made cycling very attractive, with frequent launches of new products that improved – or claimed to improve – on earlier models making them lighter and faster’ (Reid 2017).
  • 6. Bike boom 1890s. Perfecting advertising
  • 7. Bike boom 1890s. Perfecting advertising u ‘The bicycle advanced the practice of advertising by developing competitive content, using images in posters, developing research techniques to determine effectiveness, and supporting an emerging media platform: magazines’ (Petty 1995). u ‘The construction of a mobile subjectivity, the development of an entire meaning system around personal transportation, and the disciplining of bodies and the environment in service of autonomous mobility’ (Furness 2010).
  • 8. Bike boom 1890s. Campaigning for better roads
  • 9. Bike boom 1890s. Campaigning for better roads u ‘The road is that physical sign or symbol by which you will understand any age or people. If they have no roads they are savages for the road is the creation of man and a type of civilized society’ (League of American Wheelmen 1889).
  • 12. Post-war period. Cycling as deviant u Cyclists represented as ‘as boyish misfits and/or sexually “deviant”’ (Furness 2010).
  • 13. Future visions of cycle superhighways
  • 14. Future visions of cycle superhighways u ‘A bike is faster than a car over short urban distances (5 km and even more in the case of traffic jams)’ (European Commission). u ‘Cyclists visit a neighbourhood’s shops more often than drivers or public transport users, and spend more overall. Cyclists travel shorter distances to shop than drivers. Cycling can help save precious, but endangered, pubs and small shops’ (Greater London Authority 2013)
  • 16. Post-apocalyptic biketopias u Ken Avidor (2015) imagines a post-apocalyptic world where the bicycle remains the only option for transportation through the landscape of rusting wreckage of the industrial age, which is narrated through the eyes of a contemporary time traveller to a biketopia placed sometime after 2050 u ‘In the not-so-distant future, when gasoline is no longer available, humans turn to two-wheeled vehicles to transport goods, seek glory, and defend their remaining communities’ (Blue 2015).
  • 18. Convivial biketopias u H.G. Wells ‘never associates bicycles with an unhealthy mastery of space or a dangerous shrinking of distance … The bicycle is, instead, an ideal form of transportation that provides its users with enough access to places like the restorative countryside surrounding cities but that does not promote people of different nationalities and regions coming into excessive, dangerous contact with one another’ (Withers 2016).
  • 20. Convivial biketopias u ‘I really wanted to put in bold all the aspects of the cyclists – elite athletes to cycle couriers, commuters, bankers, delivery boys, mums with kids, youths on stolen mountain bikes to fashionistas and hipsters on fixed gear bikes’ (Gattoni 2012).
  • 21. Conclusions u The utopias of fast cycling seem to suggest that no other mobile futures are available. u Futures can be different, and the utopias of slow cycling represent such reasons for hope. u Change is not only desirable, but sometimes it is possible.