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Current conceptualizations of mobility futures deal with autonomous mobility. When discussing the societal impacts, questions revolve around ethical issues, while sustainability considerations bring electromobility to the fore. This paper, however, focuses on the concept of 'automobility' and discusses how it is possible to step out of the boundaries presented by the imaginary of automobility. In order to do this, the paper (a) discusses the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries; (b) places this into the literature on 'automobility'; (c) shows the basics of a post-automobility imaginary; (d) and discusses the consequences thereof with regard to digital post-automobility and the emergence of a new mobility ecosystem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How to preserve the connection between language and thinking? The paper moves on from this fundamental question in order to explain what is happening with philosophy today, as a medium of such a relationship (Badiou). Furthermore, it tries to explain the connection between the concept of apparatus (Foucault-Agamben) and language. The goal of media apparatuses is the neutralisation of language’s profane power as pure means. By robbing the language from human use and its character of disclosing the Being, capitalism controls social communication. The capital uses language as a means to disperse its own ideology and induce the so called “free-willing” obedience. The language, which should be a pure means by itself, exposes its own emptiness in the media sphere. The language – as something inherent to all human entities – should be freed from its communicational purpose. We don’t need “more communication.” What we need is creating – resistance against contemporeanity (Deleuze & Guattari). We should manage in this goal if we renew language as a GENERIC ESSENCE of a human being. Finally, coming to language is also a medium for coming-to-the-world (Sloterdijk).