Traffic in mega-urban Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) demonstrates the transformative powers of vehicles and transport infrastructures. Like eddies of a river, traffic flows are abiotic actors – other-than-human physical phenomena that influence how traffic makes its way. But the liquid sense of flow in Vietnamese imaginings has unique qualities that challenge singular conceptualisations of the Anthropocene. Moving beyond human-centredness, this paper re-imagines traffic of metropolitan HCMC as the (m)ôtô-cene. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I examine transformations of diurnal patterns of banal journey-making where infrastructure routinely fails and ask how abiotic actors shape ways of inhabiting the Anthropocene and living with roads.

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流动和洪水：流动性、道路上的生命和（m）ôtô-cene的非生物行为者

特大城市胡志明市 (HCMC) 的交通展示了车辆和交通基础设施的变革力量。就像河流的漩涡一样，交通流量是非生物因素——影响交通方式的非人类物理现象。但越南人想象中的流动感具有独特的品质，挑战了人类世的单一概念化。超越以人为本，本文将大都市 HCMC 的交通重新想象为 ( m ) ôtô -cene。借助人种学实地调查，我研究了基础设施经常出现故障的平庸旅行的昼夜模式的转变，并询问非生物行为者如何塑造人类世居住和道路生活的方式。