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Crash is] like a porno movie made by a computer: It downloads gigabytes of information about sex, it discovers our love affair with cars, and it combines them in a mistaken algorithm.

It describes the tendency of the story's main car-cash fetishist weirdo, Vaughan, to repeat, obsess and raise the (roll)bar of kink on his over-the-top fantasies: "Always he deliberately sidestepped into self-parody. They also pick up women together and Vaughan makes love to them in the back seat while Ballard drives.Alongside Ballard’s cult postmodern novel, this special edition, edited by Chris Beckett, includes never-before-seen reproductions of Ballard’s annotated manuscript pages, essays, stories and material that shine a new light on this modern masterpiece. Told through the eyes of James Ballard, a young man who, after being involved in a car crash, finds a friend in another man who is obsessed with accidents of this type. Crash, like Psycho represents a divine mirror of truth, maturity, understanding and intellect and leaves the reader with no doubt about their level of intellectual faculty and personal growth.

The film was still banned by Westminster Council, meaning it could not be shown in any cinema in the West End, even though they had earlier given special permission for the film's premiere, and it was easily seen in nearby Camden. I understand about the sexualizing of the auto in our culture and our pseudo-sexual relations to it, etc. Spying on car crashes, haunting crash test dummies, getting off in the seats of cars near the sites of your crash.However in that same year of 2011 a total of 32,479 people died on US roads in accidents, a death toll that had no political consequences what so ever.

Ballard's cult classic novel exploring crash fetishism and trauma psychology made into a film by David Cronenberg.

First American edition, first printing of Ballard's controversial novel about car-crash sexual fetishism, basis for the 1996 film directed by David Cronenberg. The story is interpreted as showing a merger between technology, sexuality, and death, and he further argued that by pointing out Vaughan's character takes and keeps photos of the car crashes and the mutilated bodies involved.

To which I have two responses: 1) the problem is not the book, but the audience it found in you; and 2) you’ve never really fucked, have you? Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. It concerns the narrator’s involvement with a young woman doctor whose husband he has killed in a car crash, and with Vaughan a “hoodlum scientist” who has a lot of nasty theories connecting the internal combustion engine with sadism, and likes to speculate about the effects of accident mutilation on film actresses. Ex-library, faint triangular library stamps (2x2cm) on title page, p31 and p61, library number opposite title page, small stain p9, otherwise clean. Robert Vaughan, who takes a keen interest in the brace holding James's shattered leg together and photographs it.I then drove it home, about a hundred miles, keeping an eye locked on the gauges waiting for, expecting, some kind of trouble. In addition to work by Ballard, a host of contributors and/or reproductions of work by Bacon, Burden, Self, Currin, Hirst, Newton, Prince, Richter, Ruscha, Warhol, and many others. In 2000, a poll done by The Village Voice of film critics listed Crash as the 35th Best Film of the 1990s. The wise reader will have applauded the introduction, said "My, how clever," and tossed the book far into the recesses of never-to-be-read piles of fiction of yore. I suspect that many male readers were fine with the lesbianism but decided they HATED this book when homosexual anal sex occurred.



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