Archive for the ‘censorship’ Category
By
Simon Sellars •
Feb 22nd, 2010 •
Category:
audio, censorship, H.P. Lovecraft, Iain Sinclair, Ian Curtis, interviews, Lead Story, literature, music, New Worlds, punk, Savoy Books, Shanghai
The story of Savoy Books is one of the strangest in publishing history: a tale of lost opportunities, missed opportunities, repression, censorship, imprisonment … and, most importantly, an incredible legacy of work that continues to disturb, challenge and confront. All of those qualities are equally applicable to Savoy Records, the music arm of Savoy’s black empire, as Simon Sellars discovers when he talks to Savoy co-founder David Britton. The interview features sound clips from selected Savoy releases.
By
Simon Sellars •
Feb 22nd, 2010 •
Category:
audio, censorship, H.P. Lovecraft, Iain Sinclair, Ian Curtis, literature, music, New Worlds, punk, Savoy Books
The story of Savoy Books is one of the most strangest in publishing history: a tale of lost opportunities, missed opportunities, repression, censorship, imprisonment … and, most importantly, an incredible legacy of work that continues to disturb, challenge and confront. All of those qualities are equally applicable to Savoy Records, the music arm of Savoy’s black empire, as Simon Sellars discovers when he talks to Savoy co-founder David Britton. The interview features sound clips from selected Savoy releases.
By
Mike Holliday •
Nov 5th, 2009 •
Category:
alternate worlds, Ambit magazine, body horror, censorship, horror, humour, Iain Sinclair, interviews, Lead Story, New Worlds, punk, Savoy Books, surrealism, William Burroughs
The story of Savoy Books is one of the strangest in publishing history: a tale of lost opportunities, missed opportunities, repression, censorship, imprisonment … and, most importantly, an incredible legacy of work that continues to disturb, challenge and confront. Mike Holliday talks to Savoy co-founder Michael Butterworth about all this and more, including the guidance Butterworth received as a young writer from J.G. Ballard.
By
Simon Sellars •
Nov 18th, 2008 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, censorship, death of affect, fashion, Italy, photography, sexual politics, Steven Meisel
Steven Meisel: rejected by Vogue Italia, embraced by ballardian.com.
By
Simon Sellars •
May 2nd, 2008 •
Category:
alternate worlds, Ballardosphere, celebrity culture, censorship, features, humour, pastiche, short stories, Will Self
Is Woody Allen a Ballard fan? Lucy Vickery at The Spectator certainly is.
By
Crashman •
Apr 8th, 2008 •
Category:
censorship, David Cronenberg, death of affect, features, film, flying, Freud, humour, Lead Story, media landscape, Michael Moorcock, music, psychopathology, speed & violence, sport, war, WWII, YouTube
Drawing inspiration from J.G. Ballard’s exhibition of crashed cars in 1970, the Crashman presents his own festival of Atrocity films: aviation disasters set to musical soundtracks.
By
Dan Lockton •
Jan 3rd, 2008 •
Category:
architecture, censorship, dystopia, fascism, features, Lead Story, psychology, speed & violence
According to Dan Lockton, one of the many ‘obsessions’ running through Ballard’s work is the effect of architecture on the individual. More than playful psychogeography, Ballard dissects architectural influence on his characters with technical precision.
By
Simon Sellars •
Dec 14th, 2007 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, body horror, celebrity culture, censorship, David Cronenberg, death of affect, film, sexual politics, speed & violence
How strange is this: Rosanna Arquette, and Crash, popping up in all sorts of places. This film, Ballard’s story, still packs a powerful psychological enema.
