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"In the evening light the white concrete of the collision corridor below the flyover resembled a secret airstrip from which mysterious machines would take off into a metallized sky."

— J.G. Ballard, Crash (1973)

💥 Collision Archive

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📖 The Book

"The car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event, a liberation of sexual energy mediating the sexuality of those who have died with an intensity impossible in any other form."

Published 1973. A controversial exploration of the psychopathology of car crashes, technology as sexuality, and the automotive landscape as erotic terrain.

📼 The Film

"The car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event, a liberation of sexual energy."

Directed by David Cronenberg (1996). Starring James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger.

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