Ben Tarnoff, co-founder of Logic Magazine and author of Internet for the Peopleīy combining intriguing histories with criticism of modern technology, Marx becomes our indispensable guide for understanding how those in power are shaping our transport landscape. ![]() If you care about how your body moves through space, you should read this book. A good storyteller and a ruthless critic, Marx shows us how corporate interests created our highly irrational modern-day mobility regime, and how Silicon Valley threatens to summon even stupider transportation futures. Paris Marx has written a probing look at the origins of automotive supremacy. Jarrett Walker, transit consultant and author of Human Transit Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon ValleyĪ lively summary of the ways Big Tech has distracted us from the urgent task of making our cities work for everyone. Brian Merchant, author of The One DeviceĪn astute and engaging critique of Silicon Valley’s visions for transportation, Road to Nowhere highlights the problems of technology being driven by the needs of capital and crafts a compelling vision of a world where technology is instead used to deliver social good. The path to a better, more equitable future of transit begins with the Road to Nowhere. ![]() Paris Marx’s invaluable new book explains how and why big tech’s utopian transit projects crashed and burned, why these disasters will keep finding funding if they are not opposed, and what the alternative might look like. The last decade has been a trainwreck for Silicon Valley's dreams of mobility. Her work is featured in Greater New York (2021) at MoMA PS1, and solo exhibitions include Random Access (2019) and Take a Picture It Lasts Longer (2018) at Office Baroque, Brussels, Jungle at JTT (2015), and The Doll Hospital at Anthology Film Archives (2010).Tech Won’t Save Us host Paris Marx breaks down the flaws in Silicon Valley’s technological visions for transportation, and makes a compelling argument for deep structural changes to create a sustainable mobility system that serves the public good. Her work is included in the collections of The Bronx Museum of Fine Arts, The Whitney Museum, and others. In 1976, Graubard produced, directed, and edited films of Talking Heads and the Ramones. Her photographs have been published by The New York Times, Paris Match, The Guardian, Time, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, Die Welt, UNICEF, the New York Post, and others. ![]() Graubard is a recipient of The Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant and has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes. Graubard’s work encompasses social worlds from squatter punks on the Lower East Side, mafia families, Jamaican dancehall, Eastern European crises and much more. ![]() Graubard’s photographs intermix the autobiographical, editorial and documentary, in a career spanning forty years. 1951) was born and lives in New York City. With many images remaining almost completely unseen for nearly thirty years, Road to Nowhere will be the first major publication of Graubard’s work. Working solo, Graubard chased stories as her heart led her, uncovering the suffering and hardship of orphanages, institutions, warfare, and hunger, as well as the joyfulness of emerging subcultures and post-Soviet identity among the young populations across Russia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and more. Coming of age in the counterculture and New York punk scenes of the 60s and 70s, Graubard’s intimate and striking colour approach to photography found a voice of its own when she packed up and embedded herself within Eastern Europe during the early nineties, witnessing the Yugoslav War, Bosnian genocide, and Kosovan uprising. Loose Joints is proud to introduce Road to Nowhere, the first publication of an under-represented voice in photographic storytelling. Graubard’s raw diaries of Eastern Europe from 1993–1995 reveal a fearless and unflinching record of turbulence and change across the Balkans.
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