By Simon Sellars • Mar 14th, 2008 •
Category: Ballardosphere, CCTV, alternate worlds, crime, death of affect, gated communities, suburbia, surveillance, technology
To celebrate the new version of the wonderful SurveillanceSaver software, here is The Ballardian Primer to Surveillance Cameras, with all quotes taken from Ballard and all images lifted from the Axis CCTV network.
By Simon Sellars • Feb 4th, 2008 •
Category: Ballardosphere, advertising, crime, gated communities, media landscape
I caved in and implemented two site-specific scenarios that I possibly thought I wouldn’t do in any especially near version of the future…
By Simon Sellars • Nov 10th, 2007 •
Category: Ballardosphere, CCTV, alternate worlds, boredom, crime, film, inner space, surveillance, technology
Annoyed with myself, I set off along the narrow street, past the surveillance cameras that guarded the lacquered doorways, each lens with its own story to tell. Hidden perspectives turned Estrella de Mar into a huge riddle. Trompe-l’oeil corridors beckoned but led nowhere…
J.G. Ballard. Cocaine Nights (1996).
Every good Ballardian needs this: SurveillanceSaver, a screensaver that […]
By Simon Sellars • Oct 19th, 2007 •
Category: Australia, Ballardosphere, Jean Baudrillard, YouTube, celebrity culture, consumerism, crime, death of affect, dystopia, fascism, features, film, media landscape, politics, speed & violence, sport, suburbia, urban revolt
A Melbourne rugby reporter, Ben Davis, is bashed on live TV while giving a report. Unsurprisingly, his attackers are caught, given the attack was broadcast to the entire nation. Ballardian? Absolutely. Let’s count the ways…
By Damien Love • Oct 12th, 2007 •
Category: David Cronenberg, Shepperton, Steven Spielberg, archival, crime, gated communities, travel
Damien Love interviewed J.G. Ballard in September 1996. At the time Ballard was one of only a very few people in the UK to have seen David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Crash, which was wrapped in a controversy that was baffling then and seems truly mystifying now.
By Simon Sellars • Mar 31st, 2007 •
Category: Ballardosphere, advertising, architecture, celebrity culture, consumerism, crime, speed & violence, urban revolt
+ KILLING CARS
Rich, car-crashing idiot No. 2: Stefan Eriksson.
Over at The Wrong Advices, Dan writes, ‘After watching Eddie Griffin destroy a Ferrari Enzo I was reminded of some of the other times rich idiots have killed beautiful and expensive cars. I’ve put together a list of some of the more memorable crashes.’
My favourite is […]
By Benjamin Noys • Mar 21st, 2007 •
Category: Jean Baudrillard, academia, consumerism, crime, features, invisible literature, media landscape, visual art
i.m. Jean Baudrillard
by Benjamin Noys
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In the wake of Jean Baudrillard’s death, Ballardian presents Benjamin Noys’s essay exploring the ‘point of convergence between the writing of Jean Baudrillard and J.G. Ballard’. This is a slightly modified version of the article that appeared as ‘Crimes of the Near Future: Baudrillard / Ballard’, Ícone 9 (2006): 29-38, reproduced […]
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