Ballardosphere Wrap-Up: Part 6
By Simon Sellars • Jun 10th, 2007 •
Category: Ballardosphere, David Cronenberg, William Burroughs, academia, architecture, dystopia, film, gated communities, leisure, utopia, visual art
+ IDEAL, RADIANT
In his excellent paper, ‘Ballard’s Banlieue Radieuse’, delivered at the Ballard conference, Owen Hatherley locates JGB’s Vermilion Sands stories as a vision at right angles to the dystopian tradition in which Ballard is normally housed — the Vermilion collection posits, Hatherley writes, ‘an actual, liveable future utopia that is eminently possible’. And yet, […]
