... background of the failure of the Overend and Gurney bank in 1866 (Sutherland 19 82: xxvii): the fictional time of the novel is set very precisely, in the years 1864–6 21 Crash Cultures: modernity, mediation ... whose crashes seem to denote some ‘other enjoyment’ beyond the scope of human subjects Faster and faster, fact and fiction, absence and 25 Crash Cultures: modernity, mediation and the material ... than the horse and cart, the driver and his two passengers notice the camera/audience and begin gesturing at it/us to move out of the way The car veers across the road, towards the camera, and, ...