The Late-Modern Unconscious
The Late-Modern Unconscious
The Object World of J. G. Ballard’s Crash
This chapter presents a reading of J. G. Ballard’s political novel Crash. The novel suggested that people should recognize that the materiality of desiring cars persists beneath emerging post-Fordist fantasies of flexibility and immaterial production. It challenged people to examine the material unconsciousness of the post-Fordist moment#x2014;the hard city that persists beneath the “soft city” that David Harvey equates with postmodernism. The novel shows how people attend to the forms of violence that the immaterial production both obscures and perpetuates.
Keywords: J. G. Ballard, Crash, materiality, Fordist fantasies, David Harvey, soft city, hard city, postmodernism
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