By Simon Sellars • May 2nd, 2008 •
Category: Ballardosphere, Will Self, alternate worlds, celebrity culture, censorship, humour, pastiche, short stories
Is Woody Allen a Ballard fan? Lucy Vickery at The Spectator certainly is.
By Crashman • Apr 8th, 2008 •
Category: David Cronenberg, Freud, Lead Story, Michael Moorcock, WWII, YouTube, censorship, death of affect, features, film, flying, humour, media landscape, music, psychopathology, speed & violence, sport, war
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: Lead Story, architecture, censorship, dystopia, fascism, features, 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, David Cronenberg, body horror, celebrity culture, censorship, 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.
By Simon Sellars • Oct 7th, 2005 •
Category: David Cronenberg, Shanghai, archival, censorship, consumerism, dystopia, film, gated communities, psychology, psychopathology, science fiction, sexual politics, 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 and […]
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