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Archive for the ‘nuclear war’ Category

“Ambiguous aims”: a review of Crash: Homage to J.G. Ballard [NSFW]

By Ben Austwick • Mar 12th, 2010 •

Category: America, Andy Warhol, Lead Story, Salvador Dali, WWII, celebrity culture, media landscape, nuclear war, speed & violence, visual art

Ballard’s writing has a strong connection to visual art. It informed his work and led to him befriending some of the leading artists of his time, while in turn his work has influenced today’s crop. As Ben Austwick reports, the exhibition Crash: Homage to J.G. Ballard represent these diverse strands in a haphazard, yet always interesting fashion.


“Extreme Possibilities”: Mapping “the sea of time and space” in J.G. Ballard’s Pacific fictions

By Simon Sellars • Aug 23rd, 2009 •

Category: Japan, Lead Story, Pacific, Shanghai, WWII, academia, alternate worlds, features, inner space, memory, micronations, nuclear war, war

What’s the connection between J.G. Ballard, Hakim Bey and Fredric Jameson? Tracking Ballard’s surreal visions of nuclear conflict to Ground Zero in the Pacific, the paper maps his peculiar, irradiated sense of “affirmative dystopias”, a template for his more enduring urban works (famously, Crash) that, finally, intersects in striking ways with the writings of Bey and Jameson.