Sexual acts in Crash occur within reflected automotive surfaces mediated by gauges

Evidence

Vaughan lifted the young woman astride him, his penis entering her vagina again. In a triptych of images reflected in the speedometer, the clock and revolution counter, the sexual act between Vaughan and this young woman took place in the hooded grottoes of these luminescent dials, moderated by the surging needle of the speedometer. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 373

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Crash reads body-technology fusion as empty inscription, not repressed psychosexuality — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 367; Wounds and scars function as symbolic surfaces for exchanging bodily signs — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 372; Crash depicts sex as irreducibly fantasmatic and cultural rather than brute — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 172

Broader Connections

• Wounds and scars function as symbolic surfaces for exchanging bodily signs #exemplifies (0.72) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 372