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Grave New World: Introduction, Part 2

By Dominika Oramus • Nov 13th, 2007 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, Salvador Dali, Shanghai, Steven Spielberg, WWII, William Burroughs, academia, features, science fiction, surrealism

by Dominika Oramus

World’s first hydrogen bomb explosion, Eniwetok Atoll, 1952.

Dominika Oramus teaches Brit.Lit. professionally at the University of Warsaw. The following is Part Two of the introduction to Grave New World: The Decline of the West in the Fiction of J.G. Ballard, her post-doctoral thesis. Grave New World currently exists as a (very) limited [...]



Grave New World: Introduction, Part 1

By Dominika Oramus • Nov 5th, 2007 •

Category: David Cronenberg, Iain Sinclair, Jean Baudrillard, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, Salvador Dali, WWII, William Burroughs, academia, death of affect, dystopia, features, psychiatry, science fiction, surrealism, technology, urban ruins

Dominika Oramus reads Ballard’s work as a record of the gradual internal degeneration of Western civilization: though we are not literally living amidst the ruins, the golden age is far behind us and we are witnessing the twilight of the West.