In our present age of rapid technological progress, the frightening discrepancy between our technical "knowledge" and our philosophical incomprehension, in general, of basic scientific conceptions seriously endangers the integrity of our intellectual outlook.
— Max Jammer
crushed and dislocated hips
in Crash Injuries: the Integrated Medical Aspects of Automobile Injuries and Death by Jacob Kulowski (1961)
jacking off to the 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu IIHS crash test
if any bodymen follow me (which i doubt)
you know how masterful this 1/4 cut was
Crash dir. David Cronenberg (1996)
Eiffel Tower, Paris by Helmut Newton (1974)
Titane dir. Julia Ducournau (2021)
Nicole Kidman for W Magazine (2025)
You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you because he wants to fuck the car. He wants to fuck the car so bad. He can't stop thinking about wanting to fuck the car.
car = body (organic or technological) + sex = violence inflicted upon the body (through technology)
typing "two cars crash front to rear" into google and violently jerking it
CRASH cover by Igor Kordej (1988)
Car Crash Studies by Nicolai Howalt
Like a #monday 🧯 photo @dunkk_s https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs5qdczA83K/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=osy1ggiuwklu
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina on the set of ‘Pierrot le Fou’ (1965)
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
riding in the backseat
From: Phyllis Christopher, Pictures of The Lesbian Underground
all this love for crash n cronenberg but i havent seen jg ballards name on my dash once
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Nadja Auermann in Thierry Mugler photographed by Helmut Newton, 1995.