ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two more recent films of David Cronenberg's namely Crash from 1995 and Existenz from 1999, and attempts to show their concerns the human body and its connection to modern technology. J. G. Ballard says in his 1995 introduction to the novel Crash that the book is 'an extreme metaphor for an extreme situation, a kit of desperate measures only for use in an extreme crisis'. According to Baudrillard the classical perspective on technology is to see it as an extension of the body, a sophistication of the human being to make her equal to nature and make her able to invest in nature. The new body created through the confrontation/communion of technology gives way to a devotion and romanticism of the wound and of the battered bodies which is reminiscent of the devotion of Christ on the cross and the wound culture always present in Christian devotion.
