By
Simon Sellars •
Feb 8th, 2010 •
Category:
CCTV, Hawkwind, Lead Story, alternate worlds, biology, body horror, boredom, celebrity culture, conspiracy theory, consumerism, cyberpunk, death of affect, entropy, inner space, psychopathology, reviews, surrealism, surveillance, technology
A review-essay of Jeremy Reed’s latest collection of poetry, West End Survival Kit. The review also discusses the long and enigmatic relationship Reed has with Ballard, who wrote the foreword to the collection, where he paid tribute to Reed’s ‘extraterrestrial talent’.
By
Ballardian •
Aug 12th, 2008 •
Category:
America, Lead Story, Pacific, WWII, alternate worlds, archival, boredom, conspiracy theory, film, music, politics, postmodernism, psychopathology, television, war
With thanks to Headpress books, here’s an interview with JGB conducted by Mark Goodall in 2006 for his book Sweet & Savage: The World Through the Shockumentary Film Lens. The interview covers JGB’s admiration for the Mondo Cane films of Gualtiero Jacopetti, so-called ’shockumentaries’ that in their artfully faked scenarios present what Ballard terms ‘an elective psychopathy that would change the world (so we hoped, naively)’.
By
Simon Sellars •
Aug 1st, 2008 •
Category:
America, Ballardosphere, conspiracy theory, politics, short stories
A 1:43 scale JFK motorcade and Ballard: what’s the connection?
