tailieunhanh - Crash Cultures modernity, mediation and the material

At every moment of every day there is a crash event, affecting everything: transportation, economics, politics, computing, bodies, brains, cups and plates, birds, agriculture, chemistry, health, banking, manufacturing and so on, without end. Despite being insured, insulated by method, knowledge, prediction, risk analysis and technology against accidents, we are nevertheless permanently avoiding them. Every crash is followed by calls for legislation: ‘it must never happen again’ – and yet it always does. As roads and airways congest to the point of stagnation, we proclaim the miracle of modern safety regimes, while remaining haunted by the ghosts of disasters waiting to happen. As technologies advance, so catastrophe looms larger,. | Crash Cultures modernity mediation and the material edited by Jane Arthurs and lain Grant Crash Cultures modernity mediation and the material Edited by Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant intellect Bristol UK Portland OR USA Reprinted in Hardback in Great Britain in 2003 by Intellect Books PO Box 862 Bristol BS99 IDE UK Published in Hardback in USA in 2003 by Intellect Books ISBS 5824 . Hassalo St Portland Oregon 97213-3644 USA Copyright 2002 Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without written permission. Consulting Editor Robin Beecroft Copy Editor Peter Young Cover Photography and Design Becky Goddard Typesetting Macstyle Ltd Scarborough N. Yorkshire Printing and Binding The Cromwell Press Wiltshire A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Electronic ISBN 1-84150-869-1 ISBN .