Archive for the ‘Fredric Jameson’ Category
By
Simon Sellars •
Dec 24th, 2008 •
Category:
Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, academia, architecture, enviro-disaster, film, interviews, politics, urban ruins, utopia, war
Nic Clear leads the remarkable Unit 15 course on the built environment at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. In this interview, Nic explains the course’s focus on the work of Ballard as a way to counter the lamentable state of current discourse on architecture. The article includes clips of six stunning films produced by students as part of this Ballard-inspired methodology.
By
Simon Sellars •
Dec 12th, 2008 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, Fredric Jameson, animation, entropy, enviro-disaster, science fiction, visual art
A slew of information on Ann Lislegaard, the brilliant artist behind ‘Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard’, the mesmerising animation that showed at the recent JGB exhibition in Barcelona. Includes links to an interview, video excerpts and stills.
By
Simon Sellars •
Dec 23rd, 2007 •
Category:
Australia, Fredric Jameson, Iain Sinclair, Jean Baudrillard, Lead Story, Pacific, academia, alternate worlds, dystopia, enviro-disaster, film, literature, reviews, science fiction, terrorism, utopia
A review of Demanding the Impossible, the Third Australian Conference on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction, held at Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia, Dec 5-7.
By
Simon Sellars •
Dec 4th, 2007 •
Category:
Fredric Jameson, Futurists, architecture, consumerism, death of affect, features, media landscape, science fiction, speed & violence, technology
Recently, Toronto’s Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy passed on to Rick McGrath a binder containing a slew of Canadian JGB reviews, Ballardian esoterica and the jewel in the crown: a long, unpublished interview with Ballard from 1974.
By
Simon Sellars •
Dec 3rd, 2007 •
Category:
Australia, Ballardosphere, Fredric Jameson, Pacific, academia, alternate worlds, dystopia, micronations, utopia
All Melbourne crew are welcome to come and heckle me this Wednesday (Dec 5, 1pm) at Monash University.
By
Simon Sellars •
Nov 1st, 2006 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, Fredric Jameson, Iain Sinclair, film, television
This site’s pastiche section has always been one of our most controversial. Some readers see it as an affront to Ballard himself, but no doubt these wet blankets are devotees of theorist Fredric Jameson, the man who described pastiche in the postmodern age as “blank parody…devoid of laughter” — a dead impulse to endlessly recycle [...]
