The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to the next screenings of its Philm Club on Bodies and Technologies.
How is the human body transformed by technology? Are we still the “tool using animals” we once thought we were, or have we become technological resources ourselves? Are we – or are we becoming – machines after all? Where are we heading as a species given the escalating integration of machinery into our very flesh? And what do these technological add-ons do to individual lives? Endless enhancement of, and liberation from, the body, or bottomless disfiguration and restraint thereof? How is technology embodied and how does it impact our perceptual and appetitive world?
These and similar questions will be tackled at the Philm Club’s next three screenings.
CRASH (1996)
Directed by David Cronenberg
English, 100 min.
A surreal meditation on sex, death and the eroticism of destruction, "Crash" focuses on an underground cult of car-crash fetishists. Transformed by scrapes with death, they sexualize each other's scars and limb injuries, re-enact famous celebrity collisions and then have it off inside or next to the smashed-up mechanical corpses. Not surprisingly, "Crash" raised a huge stink the Cannes Film Festival, where it repulsed a big chunk of its audience but won a special jury prize for "originality, daring and audacity." EDWARD GUTHMANN, San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, February 8, 6 P.M.