Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material

✍ Scribed by Jane Arthurs, Iain Grant

• Book ID: 127433316
• Publisher: Intellect Ltd
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Library
• ISBN: 1841508691

✦ Synopsis

Twenty-one British scholars contribute 14 essays which consider the crash (of physical objects, living beings, and nonvisible systems in the contemporary world) as a symbolic and material event which can give insights about the experiences of living in a modern, technologically-oriented world. Their analyses suggest the force of conventionalized ways of seeing and being, as a means of managing the unruly materiality of modern life, and address the interrelations between inanimate machines and living organisms. No subject index.