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Twitter links, part 2

By Simon Sellars • Jan 16th, 2010 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Twitter updates

More links from my Twitter stream.



Twitter: Defending the Indefensible

By Simon Sellars • Jan 11th, 2010 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Twitter updates

A weekly archive of Ballardian-related links and observations on Twitter.



Ballardian.com’s ‘Top 10′ lists for 2009

By Simon Sellars • Jan 4th, 2010 •

Category: Ballardosphere, advertising, architecture, film, invisible literature, sexual politics

Probably of no interest to anyone but me, but here goes: top 10 most-read posts on ballardian.com in 2009; top 10 search-engine phrases leading visitors to the site in 2009; and top 10 links from other sites in 2009.



Extended deadline: Ballardian/Savoy microfiction competition

By Simon Sellars • Dec 5th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Savoy Books, competitions

Due to popular demand, the Ballardian/Savoy microfiction competition deadline has now been extended to 15 December. Keep those entries coming!



Ballardian.com presents the Savoy Books Microfiction Competition

By Ballardian • Nov 5th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Savoy Books, competitions

The very first Savoy/Ballardian Microfiction Competition! Write a short story of 100 words or less on “Savoyesque’ or ‘Ballardian’ themes, and win super-rare Savoy books and comic books, and Savoy CDs.



R.I.P. Mac Tonnies

By Simon Sellars • Oct 23rd, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere

R.I.P. Mac Tonnies.



Ballard on Synth Britannia

By Simon Sellars • Oct 20th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, music

JG Ballard on the BBC TV documentary Synth Britannia.



Conference paper on Ballard and ‘circular time’

By Simon Sellars • Sep 29th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Shanghai, WWII, academia, airports, alternate worlds, memory, time travel

I’m giving a paper on Ballard, circular time and the nouvelle vague this Thursday, October 1, at 3pm at ACMI in Melbourne, as part of the time.transcendence.performance conference. Come and say hello.



Twitter updates

By Simon Sellars • Jun 19th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere

An update on updates…



R.I.P. JGB: Tributes from the Ballardosphere, part 4

By Simon Sellars • Apr 28th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, R.I.P. JGB

Late tributes from the Ballardosphere: Jeannette Baxter, Mike Bonsall, Mark Fisher, Owen Hatherley, Mike Holliday and Nina Power.



R.I.P. JGB: Tributes from the Ballardosphere, part 3

By Ballardian • Apr 22nd, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, R.I.P. JGB

Further tributes from Tim Chapman, Rick McGrath, Solveig Nordlund, Dan O’Hara, Dominika Oramus, Rick Poynor, David Pringle, Simon Sellars, Supervert and V. Vale.



R.I.P. JGB: Tributes from the Ballardosphere, part 2

By Ballardian • Apr 21st, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, R.I.P. JGB

Michael Moorcock’s tribute to JGB.



R.I.P. JGB: Tributes from the Ballardosphere, part 1

By Ballardian • Apr 21st, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, R.I.P. JGB

I have asked Ballardian contributors and associates for their thoughts on JGB’s passing. This is Part 1, featuring Ben Noys, Mark Dery and Chris Nakashima-Brown. More to come.



Ballardosphere update

By Simon Sellars • Mar 23rd, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere

Moving on to Twitter for a little while…



Back in town!

By Simon Sellars • Mar 8th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere

Grovel, grovel.



BBC Radio 7 adapts Drowned World

By Simon Sellars • Mar 6th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, audio

The first episode of BBC Radio 7’s adaptation of The Drowned World is now online.



'Naive allegory; messianic tendencies'

By Simon Sellars • Jan 31st, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, comics, consumerism

A Brazilian review of Kingdom Come — in the form of a comic strip.



Creating new worlds

By Simon Sellars • Jan 30th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Toby Litt, science fiction

Toby Litt on the best of JG Ballard.



'Destruction of cities'

By Simon Sellars • Jan 29th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, enviro-disaster, urban ruins

Dan Hill looks at a triptych of post-apocalyptic novels: On the Beach, The Drowned World and The Road.



Sonic boom

By Simon Sellars • Jan 27th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, music

The first question about J.G. Ballard’s short story The Sound-Sweep put Bill Drummond immediately on the defensive…



JGB: A 'billionaire' in Shepperton?

By Simon Sellars • Jan 22nd, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Shanghai, Shepperton, alternate worlds, biography, celebrity culture, film

Thoughts on Ballard, fame and reclusiveness, and Shepperton.



Update: Times Crash Competition

By Simon Sellars • Jan 19th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, visual art

News on the stalled competition to design the cover of the new edition of Crash.



Grand Theft Auto IV: Ballardian atrocities

By Simon Sellars • Jan 3rd, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, academia, comics, computer games, hyperreality, speed & violence

Autogeddon: Martin Pichlmair on the connection between Ballard and Grand Theft Auto IV.



'Here's to the borderzone': life after the PhD

By Simon Sellars • Dec 18th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, academia

Just a little housekeeping note…



'Because we're fucked': Skinner vs Gray

By Simon Sellars • Dec 15th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, John Gray, dystopia, music, politics, utopia

John Gray meets Mike Skinner, discusses Ballard.



'Cult of enthusiasts'

By Simon Sellars • Dec 15th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Jean Baudrillard, Stanley Kubrick

Diane Johnson, Kubrick collaborator, gets to grips with the Ballardosphere.



Ann Lislegaard: 'Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard)'

By Simon Sellars • Dec 12th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Fredric Jameson, animation, entropy, enviro-disaster, science fiction, visual art

A slew of information on Ann Lislegaard, the brilliant artist behind ‘Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard’, the mesmerising animation that showed at the recent JGB exhibition in Barcelona. Includes links to an interview, video excerpts and stills.



'Skid analysis': Vaughan reborn…

By Simon Sellars • Dec 12th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, speed & violence, technology

If Vaughan was alive today, do you think he’d be using AutoCAD to plot celebrity autogeddon?



Dubai Ballard World

By Simon Sellars • Dec 12th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Dubai, alternate worlds, architecture, entropy, enviro-disaster, theme parks

Announcement of the new Ballard World theme park in Dubai, following on from the Egypt, London and Shanghai versions.



Ballardian Glamour

By Simon Sellars • Dec 11th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, academia, fashion, sexual politics

Joanne McNeil on women characters in Ballard.



Drained Granny Pools

By Simon Sellars • Dec 11th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, architecture, drained swimming pools

A group of Sydney architects are doing their best to rob us of a Ballardian future.



'To write for the Space Age': Moorcock on Burroughs

By Simon Sellars • Dec 11th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, William Burroughs, science fiction, war

A new interview with Michael Moorcock, discussing Burroughs, Ballard, the Bomb and more.



'Audiopollution! They said it'd never hit us here…'

By Simon Sellars • Dec 5th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Hawkwind, Michael Moorcock, comics, music

The return of Moorcock, Hawkwind, Frendz… and Jim Cawthorn.



James Cawthorn, RIP: 1929-2008

By Simon Sellars • Dec 4th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, New Worlds, pastiche, visual art

RIP James Cawthorn, illustrator for New Worlds and Savoy Books; pastichist of Ballard.



Eternal Layover

By Simon Sellars • Nov 24th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, airports, alternate worlds, travel

Man survives for three months in airport terminal; doesn’t know why he’s there…



'Strangest Living Atrocities': Guy Peellaert, 1934-2008

By Simon Sellars • Nov 20th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, visual art

The artist Guy Peellaert, designer of Bowie’s Diamond Dogs cover and more, died this week.



Crouching Pervert, Hidden Meisel

By Simon Sellars • Nov 18th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Italy, Steven Meisel, censorship, death of affect, fashion, photography, sexual politics

Steven Meisel: rejected by Vogue Italia, embraced by ballardian.com.



Unique furniture of violence and desire

By Simon Sellars • Nov 17th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Interior design, fashion, flying

At last: furniture for the Ballardian bachelor pad.



Happy birthday, JGB

By Simon Sellars • Nov 15th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere

Happy birthday, Mr Ballard.



No glot… C’lom Fliday

By Simon Sellars • Nov 15th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, William Burroughs

Preliminary news about the 50th anniversary celebrations for Naked Lunch.



Feral architecture

By Simon Sellars • Nov 14th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, architecture, film, science fiction

BLDGBLOG on Ballard, resampled architecture, homogenous global space and Michael Winterbottom.



Sex times Esquire equals a lesbian expose on the cover

By Simon Sellars • Nov 14th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, sexual politics, technology

Ballard in Esquire.



Kosmopolis 08

By Simon Sellars • Oct 19th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Barcelona, Salvador Dali

I’m off to Barcelona to talk about Ballard with Vale and Bruce Sterling as part of the Kosmopolis literary festival. If you’re Catalonia-bound, come and say hi.



Ballard & Lovecraft, part 3

By Simon Sellars • Oct 18th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, H.P. Lovecraft, body horror, horror, medical procedure

Ballard on horror fiction: ‘There are sudden glimpses of the shocking and unspeakable in my fiction too, so there is a certain overlap’.



Spanish Ghost Cities

By Simon Sellars • Oct 15th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, architecture, drained swimming pools, entropy, urban decay

Solveig Nordlund’s Ballard adaptation, Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude, is rooted in reality, as this report on Spain’s ghost towns demonstrates.



'Brecht Meeting Ballard': Militant Modernism

By Simon Sellars • Oct 14th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, architecture

Announcement for Owen Hatherley’s new book, Militant Modernism.



JGB News Online

By Simon Sellars • Oct 14th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, invisible literature

David Pringle’s JGB News archive is finally online.



Site update

By Simon Sellars • Sep 25th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere

Hard to believe a month has passed since I tended to this site.
I submitted my thesis last Friday, and now it’s down to the examiners. I’m out of jail and in the halfwayhouse waiting for final parole. I can see a sliver of daylight through the crack in the angle between two walls. Coming up [...]



Site hiatus

By Simon Sellars • Aug 25th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Lead Story

While the site takes an enforced break, please feel invited to use the forum or browse through the archives. I shall be back with new content in a few weeks’ time.



Kingdom of the Dead

By Simon Sellars • Aug 5th, 2008 •

Category: America, Ballardosphere, alternate worlds, body horror, consumerism, death of affect, film, gated communities, horror, humour, micronations, urban revolt

Parallels between Ballard’s Kingdom Come and Romero’s Dawn of the Dead.