“...the look of a man who had made the devil's bargain and knew he had lost.” JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
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Some nicely Ballardian micro-fiction here:
Managed retreat—a blueprint for the future of humanity
by S Beard
Since humanity’s recent commitment to the collapse of our societies and the extinction of our species, the only remaining question concerns the ...
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"Many people have commented on his complete lack of ideas and his blurring of fiction and reality ... But Reagan's real threat is the compelling example he offers to future film actors and media manipulators with presidential ambitions..."
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‘Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.’
#JGBallard #HighRise
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“The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology."
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JG Ballard discusses Godard's Alphaville - 'the best science-fiction film of all' - from a short film by Chris Petit (Radio On) made for 1990 film series Moving Pictures.
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A great discussion on Ballard's The Unlimited Dream Company, and the rest of his work, by David Paddy author of The Empires of J.G. Ballard
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An interesting Spanish take on JG Ballard's Cocaine Nights
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“I think the prosperity in the 60s and 70s induced a kind of infantilism […] These days most people’s idea of the past is a rerun of Casablanca. They have very little idea of history nowadays. So time has dismantled itself.”
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My book Applied Ballardianism hasn't attracted much academic attention (dunno if that's good or bad)... Until now! Check out Bob Cluness's perceptive essay on the occult elements in my work: academia.edu/83791618/Tune_i…
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I've created a new way of reading JG Ballard's challenging The Atrocity Exhibition. Including Ballard's 1990 notes and intertextual Wikipedia links, it emphasises the poetic repetition of the original and allows multiple entry points as encouraged by JGB
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Excerpted from 'Crash Wounds' an abstract narrative exploring the textual woundings inside the pages of J.G. Ballard's 'Crash'...
I licked my finger and the Word was made flesh...
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Assign everyone 13 and over the complete works of JG Ballard before it's too late
Sky Cruise is a concept for a nuclear-powered sky hotel. This video rendering shows the aircraft designed to fly with 20 electric engines, housing over 5,000 guests in nearly nonstop flight [full video, Hashem Al-Ghaili: buff.ly/3Op8VrE]
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Glass aeroplanes climbed on the pavement flashed a rhythmic glans in her hand.
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Spinal Landscapes and Condensed Novels of J.G. Ballard socialecologies.wordpress.co…
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Not visually, but thematically, Fikl puts me in mind of JG Ballard, specifically High-Rise... the push through excess into a surreal and bruised space... that compelling absurdity...
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