Crashing into the future |
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Authors: | Chris Byford |
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Affiliation: | 311 Roselawn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4R 1G2 |
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Abstract: | The title of this paper, Crashing into the Future, references a conception of technology as containing its own future demise. It is a conception of the future as accident or discontinuous. We find this in J.G. Ballard's novel Crash (1973), in many of David Cronenberg's early films of the seventies, and more recently in his film adaptation of Crash (1996). This paper focuses on Crash (both the novel and the film) in terms of the way the future is pathologized through the car, and, in particular, how the car crash foregrounds temporality in a manner that is traumatic. |
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