Archive for the ‘archival’ Category
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Ballardian •
Aug 15th, 2008 •
Category:
archival, consumerism, Ernst, interviews, Marcel Duchamp, photography, psychopathology, Salvador Dali, sexual politics, speed & violence, surrealism, terrorism, the middle classes, visual art
Here’s another republished interview, this time from 2005 as Mitchell and Ford probe JGB about his infamous 1970 ‘Crashed Cars’ exhibition, which elicited drunken aggression from its bemused audience.
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Dan OHara •
May 17th, 2008 •
Category:
America, archival, Bruce Sterling, consumerism, Germany, interviews, New Worlds, Philip K. Dick, politics, psychology, science fiction, short stories, surrealism, William Gibson, WWII
Dan O’Hara is back with another translation of a German Ballard interview, this time from 2007 with JGB in priapic, puckish form.
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Mike Bonsall •
Feb 17th, 2008 •
Category:
archival, autobiography, Iain Sinclair, interviews, Salvador Dali, Shanghai, Shepperton, speed & violence, surrealism, visual art, WWII
Here’s a transcription of the BBC Radio Front Row review of Miracles, presented by Mark Lawson and featuring Iain Sinclair and Hermione Lee.
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Mike Bonsall •
Feb 14th, 2008 •
Category:
archival, autobiography, celebrity culture, interviews, Shanghai, Shepperton, Steven Spielberg, WWII
This one’s a transcript of BBC 2′s Newsnight Review segment on Miracles of Life. It features Tony Parsons, Julie Myerson and John Harris and is presented by Kirsty Wark.
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Ballardian •
Feb 7th, 2008 •
Category:
alternate worlds, archival, autobiography, consumerism, interviews, Shanghai, Shepperton, WWII
Here’s a transcript of Philip Dodd’s recent BBC Radio 3 interview with JGB.
By
Ballardian •
Feb 2nd, 2008 •
Category:
archival, dystopia, interviews, science fiction, Shanghai, Shepperton, urban decay, Will Self, William Burroughs, WWII
Will Self was recently interviewed on BBC Radio 4 by Mariella Frostrup about his admiration for J.G. Ballard’s work. Here’s a transcript of that interview.
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Mike Bonsall •
Aug 1st, 2007 •
Category:
archival, invisible literature
From 1958 to 1964, J.G. Ballard worked at Chemistry & Industry, the journal of the Society of Chemical Industry. As we’ve already discovered, what happened at C&I codified the tropes Ballard was to return to throughout his subsequent writing career — the scientific, technical and imaginative motifs that shape the very essence of what we’ve [...]
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Simon Sellars •
Oct 7th, 2005 •
Category:
archival, censorship, consumerism, David Cronenberg, dystopia, film, gated communities, interviews, psychology, psychopathology, science fiction, sexual politics, Shanghai, television
Photo by Simon Sellars This transcript was first published in Sub Dee Magazine (no. 5 Summer 1997), a print project I was involved in long before Ballardian. At the time, J.G. Ballard’s career was in the ascendancy after what was perceived to be an average period in his writing. Cocaine Nights had just been released [...]
By
Ballardian •
Jul 9th, 2005 •
Category:
archival, celebrity culture, psychopathology, sexual politics, speed & violence, suicide, visual art, William Burroughs
by William Burroughs (1970) The Atrocity Exhibition is a profound and disquieting book. The nonsexual roots of sexuality are explored with a surgeon’s precision. An auto-crash can be more more sexually stimulating than a pornographic picture. (Surveys indicate that wet dreams in many cases have no overt sexual content, whereas dreams with an overt sexual [...]
