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November 28th, 2009

Car culture: Some snapshots


Car caps     Macho car culture
Automobile branding

Starting early     Little cars
Little drivers

'Hot' race cars     Toy cars
“Hot Wheels” and “Power Race” toys

Car and oil infrastructure
An urban design model

Road rage     Lamborghini -- The energy drink
Energy drinks

Virility (?)
An ad about ‘healthy’ ‘male’ sexuality

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Two of these photos were taken in Toronto, Ontario. The rest are from London, Ontario.

There are more car culture photos in these posts -
- “Full Throttle”
- “Great cars”





Categories: Liberal individualism · Political economy: Capitalist commerce

1 response so far ↓

  • 1 Sean // Dec 12, 2009 at 12:50 am

    A read a book by the late Stan Rowe, Canada’s eco-philosopher, he was well ahead of his time, and he wrote that we imprint machines, cars in particular, onto our infant children while we deprive them of any connection to their natural world.

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