Crash Cultures: modernity, mediation and the material

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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' ¨C 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, threatening fiscal and economic, as well as physical systems. But the crash brings it all back home. From the crumpled remains of a Mercedes in Paris to the collapse of the World Trade Centre in New York; from Black Monday on the money markets to Chernobyl's meltdown; from Crash to Titanic: from James Dean and Jayne Mansfield to Warhol and
Ballard ¨C crashes are individuated, named, in order to prevent the sense that our history, far from being one of steady progress, is in fact an incremental accumulation of crashes. It preserves us from the fear of generalised catastrophe. All the better, therefore, should the victims be famous, and all the worse if, as when a Boeing hit an Amsterdam Tower block, effacing its illegal immigrant inhabitants, they remain anonymous. Every crash can be located on a scale in accordance with the celebrity or anonymity of its victims.
In analytic terms, every crash reminds us that we have stepped over the line separating the benignly abstract from the horribly concrete, from ¡®risk society' to crash cultures. How are we to study crashes, what method are we to use to ensure we absorb all their impact? Crashes take place where method goes awol and control fails (at least
our control), where prediction runs up against its own inadequacies. Accident investigators, scouring fresh craters for oracular black boxes, regularly pale in the face of the profusion of fragmentary and merely suggestive evidence. The crash resists interpretation ¨C not least because it is an event, with singular dates and places, shot through with time.



   
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