Archive for the ‘interviews’ Category
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Mike B •
Feb 21st, 2008 •
Category:
Shanghai, Shepperton, Steven Spielberg, WWII, autobiography, consumerism, interviews
Here’s the last in our batch of transcripts of recent Miracles promotions: James Naughtie’s interview with JGB for BBC Radio 4.
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Mike B •
Feb 17th, 2008 •
Category:
Iain Sinclair, Salvador Dali, Shanghai, Shepperton, WWII, autobiography, interviews, speed & violence, surrealism, visual art
Here’s a transcription of the BBC Radio Front Row review of Miracles, presented by Mark Lawson and featuring Iain Sinclair and Hermione Lee.
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Mike B •
Feb 14th, 2008 •
Category:
Shanghai, Shepperton, Steven Spielberg, WWII, autobiography, celebrity culture, interviews
This one’s a transcript of BBC 2’s Newsnight Review segment on Miracles of Life. It features Tony Parsons, Julie Myerson and John Harris and is presented by Kirsty Wark.
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Ballardian •
Feb 7th, 2008 •
Category:
Shanghai, Shepperton, WWII, alternate worlds, autobiography, consumerism, interviews
Here’s a transcript of Philip Dodd’s recent BBC Radio 3 interview with JGB.
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Ballardian •
Feb 2nd, 2008 •
Category:
Shanghai, Shepperton, WWII, William Burroughs, audio, dystopia, interviews, science fiction, urban decay
Will Self was recently interviewed on BBC Radio 4 by Mariella Frostrup about his admiration for J.G. Ballard’s work. Here’s a transcript of that interview.
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Dan O'Hara •
Jan 9th, 2008 •
Category:
David Cronenberg, Steven Spielberg, WWII, architecture, audio, dystopia, entropy, fascism, film, gated communities, interviews, urban decay, urban revolt, urban ruins, utopia
Dan O’Hara interviews the creators of Hochhaus, a German mixed-media radio play based on High-Rise. Transposing the novel to Berlin in 2013, it references Nazism, notably Speer’s social engineering through architecture, on its way to exploring Ballard’s relevance to speculative models of German life.
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Alexander Gutzmer •
Dec 7th, 2007 •
Category:
architecture, consumerism, interviews, politics, terrorism
This is an English translation of an interview with J.G. Ballard by Alexander Gutzmer, originally published in German by Welt am Sonntag, 3 June 2007.
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Simon Sellars •
Oct 3rd, 2007 •
Category:
Brian Eno, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, William Burroughs, entropy, interviews, music, paranormal, urban ruins
Cousin Silas has created two albums inspired by the works of J.G. Ballard. Simon Sellars spoke to Silas about Ballard, Lovecraft, Forteana, Moorcock, Eno, Tarkovsky — all the essentials.
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Mike Holliday •
Jul 9th, 2007 •
Category:
Brian Eno, Iain Sinclair, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, Shepperton, Steven Spielberg, William Burroughs, audio, film, interviews, literature
Michael Moorcock, J.G. Ballard and JGB’s partner Claire Walsh in September, 2006 (photo courtesy Linda Moorcock).
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Interview by Mike Holliday
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Michael Moorcock has been a prolific writer and editor for the last five decades. Born in London, he was editing his first magazine by the age of seventeen, and started writing genre fiction professionally as soon as […]
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Simon Sellars •
Jul 3rd, 2007 •
Category:
Bruce Sterling, David Cronenberg, William Burroughs, alternate worlds, cyberpunk, interviews, paranormal, posthumanism, science fiction
Mac Tonnies is a Kansas-based writer of post-cyberpunk science fiction (recently published by the redoubtable Rudy Rucker). He’s also the author of the book After the Martian Apocalypse, a speculative search for life on the Red Planet, as well as the originator of a ‘cryptoterrestrial’ philosophy that ambitiously seeks to explain (with ‘balanced skepticism’) […]
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Simon Sellars •
Jun 2nd, 2007 •
Category:
Brian Eno, New Worlds, Philip K. Dick, Salvador Dali, William Burroughs, audio, entropy, interviews, science fiction, short stories
Interview by Simon Sellars.
Simon Reynolds is one of the most recognisable music critics around — or at least his style is, not least for its willingness to tackle pop music as an art form worthy of sustained intellectual discourse rather than as a fleeting moment of adolescent flash. Reynolds breaks new ground, melding unbridled […]
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Gwyn Richards & Simon Sellars •
May 2nd, 2007 •
Category:
Australia, Toby Litt, consumerism, interviews, invisible literature, literature, medical procedure, suburbia
Interview by Gwyn Richards & Simon Sellars
Toby Litt is an English novelist who published his first book, Adventures in Capitalism (a volume of short stories), in 1996, when he was 28. He’s since won praise for the dark inventiveness of his writing, a combination of cinematic prose, apocalyptic imagery and sharp wit that freely […]
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Simon Sellars •
Feb 28th, 2007 •
Category:
Philip K. Dick, Salvador Dali, advertising, boredom, consumerism, fashion, interviews, visual art
Interview by Simon Sellars
Rick McGrath is a writer and former adman (which explains the pithy insights to come). He’s also the curator of what may be the world’s largest collection of J.G. Ballard first editions; he’s the ‘go-to man’ whenever a TV station or glossy mag does a rare feature on Ballard and needs […]
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Simon Sellars •
Jan 12th, 2007 •
Category:
Australia, David Cronenberg, Iain Sinclair, Jean Baudrillard, Steven Spielberg, academia, interviews, invisible literature, surrealism
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J.G. Ballard, in 1960, posing in front of his ‘experimental billboard fiction’.
On 5 May 2007, ‘From Shanghai to Shepperton: An International Conference on J.G. Ballard’, apparently the first-ever conference on the work of Ballard, will be held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Guest speakers include the novelist Toby Litt; Dr Roger Luckhurst, […]
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Simon Sellars •
Nov 7th, 2006 •
Category:
David Cronenberg, Iain Sinclair, Steven Spielberg, architecture, boredom, dystopia, interviews, psychology, utopia
by Simon Sellars
Photo by Emiliano Granado. Used with permission.
Geoff Manaugh is a writer and essayist whose work has appeared in Contemporary, Space & Culture, Blend, Lumpen, Inhabitat, WorldChanging, the Oyster Boy Review, the Urban Design Review, Subtopia, Vector, things magazine, and The Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection (a short essay in the CD liner notes). He’s […]
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Simon Sellars •
Sep 29th, 2006 •
Category:
Australia, Iain Sinclair, Shepperton, consumerism, dystopia, interviews, psychology, short stories, sport
Interview by Simon Sellars
JG Ballard. Photo: Paul Murphy.
In the year that this website’s been in operation, it seems to have had a momentum — a secret logic — all its own. Our interviews with such luminaries as Bruce Sterling, John Foxx, Mike Ryan and Iain Sinclair — even the irascible Jonathan Weiss — have […]
By
Ben •
Sep 20th, 2006 •
Category:
Shanghai, consumerism, humour, interviews, psychology, short stories, surrealism, terrorism
JG Ballard. Photo: Paul Murphy.
On 14 September 2006 JG Ballard gave a reading from his new novel, Kingdom Come, and talked to Robert McCrum of the Observer at the Institute of Education, London — the evening was presented by Blackwell. Looking rather dapper and displaying a sharpness and wit that puts people half his age […]
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timc •
Aug 29th, 2006 •
Category:
Chris Petit, David Cronenberg, Iain Sinclair, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, Shepperton, Steven Spielberg, William Burroughs, architecture, film, flying, interviews, politics, psychogeography, utopia
by Tim Chapman
Iain Sinclair at the Barbican. Photo: Tim Chapman, © 2006.
Iain Sinclair has been acclaimed as one of Britain’s most visionary writers and as an incomparable prose stylist. His early writing, notably Lud Heat (1975) and White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (1987), was rooted in his adopted home of East London. It did much to […]
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Simon Sellars •
Jul 11th, 2006 •
Category:
Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair, Philip K. Dick, William Burroughs, architecture, audio, film, interviews, psychogeography, surrealism
by Simon Sellars
an image from John Foxx’s Cathedral Oceans project
John Foxx, the former lead singer of Ultravox, is an undisputed electronic music pioneer. Before Midge Ure came along, the band’s three Foxx-driven albums, Ultravox! (1977), Ha! Ha! Ha! (1978) and Systems of Romance (1978), fused near-future melancholy with icy man-machine interfaces and the remake/remodel aesthetic […]
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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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- JG Ballard, […]
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Simon Sellars •
May 2nd, 2006 •
Category:
Australia, Chris Petit, David Cronenberg, Iain Sinclair, Steven Spielberg, academia, consumerism, dystopia, film, humour, interviews, sexual politics
by Simon Sellars
Victor Slezak as ‘T’ in The Atrocity Exhibition
Ballardian presents an exclusive interview with Jonathan Weiss, director of The Atrocity Exhibition, the film based on the J.G. Ballard collection of ‘condensed novels’.
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NOTE: This is a revised and expanded version of the original interview. The new additions are a reworked introduction, the addition of notes, […]
By
Chris •
Oct 7th, 2005 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, Bruce Sterling, Shepperton, William Burroughs, cyberpunk, enviro-disaster, flying, interviews, invisible literature, medical procedure, science fiction, sexual politics, urban decay
Bruce Sterling is a prolific science-fiction writer, futurist, social critic and design professor, best known for his bestselling novels and seminal short fiction, and as the editor of the Mirrorshades anthology that defined the ‘cyberpunk’ subgenre. His nonfiction includes works of futurism such as Tomorrow Now; a regular column and blog for Wired; and his […]
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Simon Sellars •
Oct 7th, 2005 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, architecture, interviews, media landscape, theatre
interview by Simon Sellars
Isabelle Jenniches, originally from Germany, is a multimedia artist now based in California. With collaborator Stefan Kunzmann she staged a theatre adaptation of JG Ballard’s novel Concrete Island at the Theater de Balie, Amsterdam, in 2002. The performance incorporated aspects of Butoh as well as an industrial/ambient soundtrack, projections and video; it […]