Car intimacy isolates one to produce the self as commodity

Evidence

Above all, we suggest, the car is a background central for the factory that is influencer culture because it permits anyone access to a space that is equally intimate, an intimacy that emerges from particular techniques for isolating oneself, thereby producing oneself as a commodity. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 181

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core to the Corpocene model: the car is one of four infrastructures, producing self-as-commodity through isolation techniques.
• XREF: connects to: The self’s seeming uniqueness is a mass-produced commodity falsely posed as natural — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 117