Ballardoscope: some attempts at approaching the writer as a visionary
By Jordi Costa • Jul 26th, 2008 •
Category: Alain Robbe-Grillet, America, Bruce Sterling, Shanghai, Shepperton, Steven Spielberg, WWII, autobiography, deep time, drained swimming pools, features, flying, hyperreality, inner space, literature, medical procedure, science fiction, sexual politics, space relics, speed & violence, surrealism, technology, war
Jordi Costa, the curator of J.G. Ballard: Autopsy of the New Millennium, currently exhibiting at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, gifts us this incisive analysis of the major themes in Ballard’s work. Accompanying the essay is the alternate version of the exhibition’s promo trailer.
