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Too Much Sand in My Data: How Inadequate Motorcycles and Complete Participation Reveal Authentic Adventure

Jason Wragg

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Motorcycles in a comic cell excerpt

During a seven-day motorcycle journey across Morocco on 50cc monkey bikes, my carefully planned observational stance collapsed under the material demands of desert travel with sandstorms, mechanical failures, and the relentless physical reality of riding underpowered machines through hostile terrain. Continue reading

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At the Boundary of Beauty and Truth: The Motorcycle as Aesthetic/Ontologic Vehicle

Steven Burr

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I will argue that motorcycling may perhaps be a paradigmatic experience which lends itself to both aesthetic and ontologic realizations: although there are a myriad of ways in which riding potentiates a wide range of experiences of beauty, the act of riding is simultaneously, and fundamentally, a particular way of objectively being in the world; these seemingly distinct and independent experiences are in fact inexorably related, each synergistically amplifying the other. Motorcycling is thus precisely the kind of experience which enables a reconciliation of the aesthetic and the ontologic in a unified, and unifying, experience of harmony.
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Seen from a Motorcycle: Hypomnemata by Robert Pirsig’s from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Guido Borelli

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In his less elaborate passages, ZAMM shows us how the act of seeing while riding a motorcycle coincides with a performative act. Seeing things as “pure seeing” is useful for suspending our innate habit of filtering the vision of things through the intellect. Continue reading