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Archive for the ‘leisure’ Category

The Office Park

By Nicholas Cobb • Jan 18th, 2010 •

Category: CCTV, Jean Baudrillard, Lead Story, alternate worlds, architecture, death of affect, dystopia, features, gated communities, leisure, non-place, photography, psychopathology, surveillance, technology, theme parks

Nicholas Cobb’s architectural model of a corporate campus, photographed with a malevolent, dystopian flair, and exploring parallel themes to Ballard’s Super-Cannes.


Crown Casino: ‘A snarling, digitised mutilation’

By Simon Sellars Melb Psy • May 27th, 2009 •

Category: Australia, CCTV, Lead Story, advertising, alternate worlds, architecture, audio, boredom, consumerism, death of affect, deep time, fascism, features, hyperreality, leisure, micronations, occult, perception, photography, psychogeography, schizophrenia, surveillance, temporality, time travel, utopia

Simon Sellars, Mel Chilianis and Melb Psy take an audiovisual tour of Melbourne’s Crown Casino, seeking to map the coordinates of this micronational zone — consumer-driven control space with a raging need.


Tribute to J.G. Ballard & Brian Eno

By Simon Sellars • Jul 16th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Brian Eno, architecture, leisure, music, utopia

Ballard & Eno: quite possibly the ‘two greatest British thinkers of the second half of the 20th Century’.


Bluewater, Round 2

By Simon Sellars • May 28th, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Iain Sinclair, architecture, consumerism, leisure, suburbia, the middle classes, utopia

More Bluewater, less Ballard according to Michael Collins.


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, [...]