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Título: | Heiddegerian enframing, nihilism & affectlessness in J. G. Ballard's Crash |
Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
Editorial: | Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia |
ISSN: | 1989-6131 |
Materias relacionadas: | CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura |
Palabras clave: | Enframing Gestell Nihilism Affectlessness Technology The car Death drive Standing reserve Bestand Dehumanisation Eclipse of the other Wound culture |
Resumen: | J.G. Ballard’s novel Crash (1973) allows a reading in the terms of Heidegger’s concept of Ge-stell or enframing, according to which in modernity everything, humans included, is seen as a mere means to often questionable ends. Prompted by violent sexual fantasies and an unleashed death drive, its main characters, a wild bunch of symphorophiliac drivers, live a life of existential nihilism, treating human beings as objects, mere fodder for their prearranged car crashes. In so doing, they take an active part in a general process of dehumanisation afflicting Western civilisation, where people are just standing reserve (Bestand). This would be closely linked to so-called affectlessness, where emotions go nowhere but to an ever-increasing self-absorption in a world without others. In turn, this would be symptomatic of a civilisational shift from word to image, in a society where technology and performativity reign supreme and everything is evacuated of meaning. |
Autor/es principal/es: | Sánchez Fernández, Carlos |
Colección: | Vol.19 (1), 2019 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10201/73881 |
Tipo de documento: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Número páginas / Extensión: | 17 |
Derechos: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Aparece en las colecciones: | 2019, V. 19, N. 1 |
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