tailieunhanh - intellect Crash Culturesmodernity, mediation and the material phần 5

Schaulust kỷ niệm chiến thắng của mình "(Benjamin 1991: 572, bản dịch của tôi), bởi vì nó vẫn còn tối giản để chiếm đoạt chỉ đơn thuần là tâm lý. Mặc dù chuyến bay xuất hiện là vật lý khác của sợ hãi, hoặc chấn thương, những gì những cảnh tượng của vụ tai nạn | Crash Beyond the Boundaries of Sense Tookey C. 1996 Morality dies in the twisted wreckage. Daily Mail. 9th November 6. Tookey C 1997 Does anything appal this man Daily Mail. 20th March 1997 14-15. Walker A. 1996 A film beyond the bounds of depravity. Evening Standard. 3rd June 16. 77 7 Sexcrash Fred Botting and Scott Wilson For as long as people have defined themselves as human Technology or the figure of the machine has provided the inhuman element which lies at the extreme core of identity - the engine of desire. Once upon a time woman as Courtly Lady doll automaton or corpse provided man with an inhuman partner worthy of his machinic desire an object of powerful sublimation for which he would create beauty amass fortunes conquer the world make a name for himself. Now the machine is its own metaphor which suggests that this metaphor has been reduced to a literalism that renders desire purely and machinically metonymic. Without an end desire careers along a chain of objects across a grid of network connections until it crashes. At that point identity is formed retroactively according to the outcome of the crash celebrity notoriety anonymity a sudden rocketing success or a disastrous collapse. Since the 1960s a number of notable texts have appeared which are particularly symptomatic in their literalization of machinic desire representing or actualizing a desire to impact with become scarred and mutilated by or annihilated by machines. In different ways these texts presuppose the existence of some kind of unspeakable machinic jouissance to which there is no access except through crashing. Baudrillard has hailed . Ballard s novel Crash as the first great novel of the universe of simulation the one with which we will all now be concerned - a symbolic universe but one which through a sort of reversal of the mass-mediated substance neon concrete car erotic machinery appears as if traversed by an intense force of initiation Baudrillard 1994 119 . It is strange to hear