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.

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JG巴拉德（JG Ballard）的《崩溃》中的海德格尔的包容，虚无和无情：

JG巴拉德（JG Ballard）的小说《崩溃（Crash）》（1973）允许以海德格尔（George-Stell）的概念进行阅读，在现代意义上，包括人类在内的所有事物都被视为仅是常常有问题的目的的手段。在激烈的性幻想和释放的死亡驱动力的推动下，其主要角色，一群狂热的交感神经病驾驶员生活在存在虚无主义的生活中，将人类视为对象，仅仅是他们预先安排的车祸的饲料。通过这样做，他们积极参与了困扰西方文明的普遍的非人性化进程，在那里人们只是常备军（Bestand）。这将与所谓的“无情”密切相关，在无情中，情感无处不在，而在没有其他事物的世界中，自我吸收不断增加。反过来，