By Simon Sellars • Dec 4th, 2007 •
Category: 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McGrath a binder containing a slew of Canadian JGB reviews, Ballardian esoterica and the jewel in the crown: a long, unpublished interview with Ballard from 1974.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 • Jun 15th, 2006 •
Category: Ballardosphere, Brian Eno, David Cronenberg, Futurists, Steven Spielberg, William Burroughs, architecture, audio, interviews
by Simon Sellars
I think I’m the only person I know who doesn’t own a record player or a single record. I’ve never understood why, because my maternal grandparents were lifelong teachers of music, and my father as a choirboy once sang solo in Manchester Cathedral. But that gene seems to have skipped me.”
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