By Mike Holliday • Jun 20th, 2009 •
Category: crime, death of affect, fascism, features, horror, Lead Story
Mike Holliday gets to the bottom of the 1968 obscenity trial brought against Bill Butler and the Unicorn Bookshop, for stocking Ballard’s ‘Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan’. As prosecuting counsel Michael Worsley asked of Ballard’s work, “Is this not the meanderings of a dirty and diseased mind?”
By Rick McGrath • May 8th, 2009 •
Category: advertising, Ambit magazine, consumerism, crime, Freud, Lead Story, media landscape, psychogeography, psychology
Rick McGrath continues to explore the aesthetic of the advertisement in J.G. Ballard’s work, from the early short stories right through to Kingdom Come.
By Simon Sellars • Mar 5th, 2009 •
Category: autobiography, biography, boredom, consumerism, crime, deep time, features, flying, Iain Sinclair, inner space, perception, photography, psychogeography, psychopathology, Shepperton, suburbia, time travel
Finally: the long-delayed conclusion to my photo essay, ‘”Paradigm of nowhere”: Shepperton, a photo essay’, in which I aim for the traversal of a distinct psychic terrain: the blanket overlay of Shepperton with a mental template gleaned from so many Ballard novels and short stories.
By Simon Sellars • Nov 11th, 2008 •
Category: academia, alternate worlds, architecture, Barcelona, celebrity culture, crime, features, Futurists, inner space, Lou Reed, media landscape, Salvador Dali, surrealism, theme parks, Toby Litt, visual art
I’ve finally captured my impressions of Barcelona and Kosmopolis, with main ingredients: Lou Reed, Claire Walsh, Laurie Anderson, Kafka, Brecht, Dali, brilliant public space, Ballard, and the sheer unbridled thrill of one of the most amazing cities in Europe.
By Simon Sellars • May 27th, 2008 •
Category: architecture, Ballardosphere, consumerism, crime, Iain Sinclair, terrorism, urban revolt
“Iain, I want you to blow up Bluewater.”
By Simon Sellars • Mar 14th, 2008 •
Category: alternate worlds, CCTV, crime, death of affect, features, 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: advertising, Ballardosphere, 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: alternate worlds, Ballardosphere, boredom, CCTV, 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 [...]
By Simon Sellars • Mar 31st, 2007 •
Category: advertising, architecture, Ballardosphere, 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 [...]
By Benjamin Noys • Mar 21st, 2007 •
Category: academia, consumerism, crime, features, invisible literature, Jean Baudrillard, media landscape, visual art
i.m. Jean Baudrillard by Benjamin Noys ———————————————————————————————————————- 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 [...]
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