ABSTRACT
As “mundane technologies,”1 assemblages shape experiences of place and movement in deeply meaningful ways. As Middleton2 shows with regard to walking in the city, for example, “humans-objects-environments” can severely restrict (but also enable) an individual’s coordination of day-to-day mobile tasks. Restrictions of movement are what Cresswell calls frictions.3 Frictions are hurdles, barriers, and speed-bumps of sorts. Their sources can be human (e.g. a cranky border guard), natural (e.g. bad weather), or technical-material (e.g. a road full of potholes).
