https://blog.georgefabish.com/tags/j_g_ballard/ Recent content in J_g_ballard on George's Blog Hugo en-US Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/crash/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:32:53 -0500 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/crash/ <p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>I remember coming across the Wikipedia summary for this book after Baudrillard did an analysis in his bewildering <em>Simulacra and Simulation</em>, which read:</p> <p>It follows a group of car-crash fetishists who, inspired by the famous crashes of celebrities, become sexually aroused by staging and participating in car accidents. At the time, I thought it was a strange summary, maybe a typo or something—after all, it doesn’t make any sense! So I, in my naivete, tucked this away in the &ldquo;read later&rdquo; list. I’ve read the book and can confirm the above sentence is a valid summary.</p>