Contents

 

 

 

Foreword by R.K. Stratman

Mile Zero

When Your Life Revolves around Harleys
BERNARD E. ROLLIN

 

THE RIDE

First Leg: 100 Miles

1.   Zen and the Art of Harley Riding
GRAHAM PRIEST

2.   Christ in a Sidecar: An Ontology of Suicide Machines
RANDALL E. AUXIER

3.   The Biker Bar and the Coffee House: A Paean to the Postmodern Pagans
RANDALL E. AUXIER

4.   What Can Marx and Hegel Tell Us about Social Divisions among Bikers?
JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN

Second Leg: 200 Miles

5.   What Are a Bunch of Motorcycles Doing in an Art Museum?
BERNARD E. ROLLIN

6.   Motorcycling, Nihilism, and the Price of Cool
ALAN R. PRATT

7.   Harleys as Freedom Machines: Myth or Fantasy?
FRED FELDMAN

8.   From Spare Part to High Art: The Aesthetics of Motorcycles
CRAIG BOURNE

Third Leg: 300 Miles

9.   Easy Rider and the Life of Harleys
GRAHAM HARMAN

10.   “It’s My Own Damn Head”: Ethics, Freedom, and Helmet Laws
BERNARD E. ROLLIN

11.   Riding Your Harley Back into Nature: Hobbes, Rousseau, and the Paradox of Biker Identity
STEVEN E. ALFORD

Fourth Leg: 400 Miles

12.   Leather-Clad: Eroticism, Fetishism, and Other -isms in Biker Fashion
SUZANNE FERRISS

13.   The Wild One, She-Devils on Wheels, and “Motorcycle Syndrome”: Foucault and Biker Images
GARY L. KIEFFNER

14.   Riding along the Way: A Dao of Riding
DAVID JONES

 

Contributors’ Dream Machines

Hardcore Index