Archive for the ‘Pacific’ Category
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.
By
Ballardian •
Aug 12th, 2008 •
Category:
America, Lead Story, Pacific, WWII, alternate worlds, archival, boredom, conspiracy theory, film, music, politics, postmodernism, psychopathology, television, war
With thanks to Headpress books, here’s an interview with JGB conducted by Mark Goodall in 2006 for his book Sweet & Savage: The World Through the Shockumentary Film Lens. The interview covers JGB’s admiration for the Mondo Cane films of Gualtiero Jacopetti, so-called ’shockumentaries’ that in their artfully faked scenarios present what Ballard terms ‘an elective psychopathy that would change the world (so we hoped, naively)’.
By
Simon Sellars •
Jul 16th, 2008 •
Category:
H.P. Lovecraft, Lead Story, Pacific, Savoy Books, alternate worlds, features, horror
What is the connection between J.G. Ballard and H.P. Lovecraft? Artist John Coulthart is well placed to offer some insight into what he terms ’superficial style at the service of a unique imagination’.
By
Simon Sellars •
Dec 23rd, 2007 •
Category:
Australia, Fredric Jameson, Iain Sinclair, Jean Baudrillard, Lead Story, Pacific, academia, alternate worlds, dystopia, enviro-disaster, film, literature, reviews, science fiction, terrorism, utopia
A review of Demanding the Impossible, the Third Australian Conference on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction, held at Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia, Dec 5-7.
By
Simon Sellars •
Dec 3rd, 2007 •
Category:
Australia, Ballardosphere, Fredric Jameson, Pacific, academia, alternate worlds, dystopia, micronations, utopia
All Melbourne crew are welcome to come and heckle me this Wednesday (Dec 5, 1pm) at Monash University.
