Drivers are a forgotten part of the modernity around us. If we had been in Yogyakarta in the early 1930s, we would have realized that the modern world had arrivedphysically, but also as an allegoryin the form of straight, asphalt roads. Drivers were the actors on these new flat surfaces.

In the early 1930s, the drivers of Yogyakarta published a magazine titled Sopir (Chauffeur). I know about this thanks to the Czech historian, Rudolf Mrazek. In hi