Dostoevsky on Tracklocross
Imagine it as a field at the edge of thought.Not a stadium, not a road, not quite wilderness either.Grass pressed flat by frost, mud holding yesterday’s rain like a secret it refuses to give back.Into this field comes a bicycle with no capacity for mercy. The chain is a sentence that never ends.The pedals do…
Foucault on a Fixed Gear: Power, Discipline, and Riding Through the City
Michel Foucault would not begin with the bicycle.He would begin with the street. The city announces itself as a system of permissions. Painted lines, signal phases, kerbs, curbs, cameras. Circulation is never neutral. It is designed, optimised, surveilled. Traffic is not simply movement but governance in motion. Bodies are sorted by speed, weight, vulnerability, legitimacy.…
Tracklocross is Freedom
Tracklocross stages freedom not as speed unbounded, but as a disciplined refusal of excess. Its freedom is ascetic, almost monastic, enacted through the fixed gear’s insistence that movement be continuous, accountable, and felt. Without the technological escape hatches of coasting or suspension, the rider enters a condition of heightened immanence, where terrain is not overcome…
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