TY - BOOK AU - Arthurs,Jane AU - Grant,Iain TI - Crash cultures: modernity, mediation, and the material SN - 1841500712 AV - B804 .A78 2003 U1 - 303.485 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Bristol, UK, Portland, OR PB - Intellect KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - 20th century KW - Accidents (Philosophy) KW - Reality KW - Technology and civilization KW - Disasters KW - Social aspects KW - Accidents N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 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 Power 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 ER -