Jane Arthurs, Iain Grant (eds.): Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material (2000)

We are surrounded daily with crashing vehicles, economies, computers and bodies. At the intersection of speed, development, design and automation, the crash punctuates cultural and technological change with the automated mundanity of death, risk and destruction. Yet the only studies conducted into crashes concern safety measures and the mythology of prevention. This volume aims therefore to investigate crashes to the fullest extent of their invasion of the everyday, to document their commemoration and productivity, and to offer accounts of the significance of these extreme yet banal moments.

Published by Intellect Books, 2000
ISBN 1841500917, 9781841500911
202 pages

Key terms:
English Patient, heterotopia, Amelia Earhart, death drive, Pleasure Principle, Un Chien Andalou, animist, Kensington Palace, mass media, Camera Lucida, Saipan, BBFC, jouissance, Roland Barthes, Negative Dialectics, semiotic, Rodney King, Paul Mantz, Jackie Cochran, Tokyo Rose

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