Crash cultures : modernity, mediation and the material /

Arthurs, Jane.

Crash cultures : modernity, mediation and the material / edited by Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant. - Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Intellect, 2003. - 1 online resource (v, 202 pages) : illustrations

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Cover -- Preliminaries -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Modernity, Mediation and the Material -- 2 'Will It Smash?': Modernity and the Fear of Falling -- 3 How it Feels -- 4 Eye-Hunger: Physical Pleasure and Non- Narrative Cinema -- 5 Crashed-Out: Laundry Vans, Photographs and a Question of Consciousness -- 6 Crash: Beyond the Boundaries of Sense -- 7 Sexcrash -- 8 Cyborgian Subjects and the Auto-Destruction of Metaphor -- 9 Spirit in Crashes: Animist Machines and the Powers of Number -- 10 Racing Fatalities: White Highway, Black Wreckage -- 11 Negative Dialectics of the Desert Crash in The English Patient -- 12 The Iconic Body and the Crash -- 13 Of Hallowed Spacings: Diana's Crash as Heterotopia -- 14 Fuel, Metal, Air: The Appearances and Disappearances of Amelia Earhart -- Postscript.

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Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
Accidents (Philosophy)
Reality.
Technology--Philosophy.
Technology and civilization.
Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophie--20e siècle.
Accident (Philosophie)
Réalité.
Technologie--Philosophie.
Technologie et civilisation.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Modern.
Accidents (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Modern.
Reality.
Technology and civilization.
Technology--Philosophy.
Rampen.
Representatie (algemeen)
Films.
Bellettrie.
Sociale aspecten.


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