“Now: Zero” vs Death Note
By Simon Sellars • Apr 17th, 2008 •
Category: Ballardosphere, Japan, manga, paranormal, short stories
Good old postmodernism. Here’s another claim about manga being influenced by an obscure Ballard story.
Archive for the ‘paranormal’ Category
Ackroyd, Ballard, Amis, Moore: ‘four points of blokish energy’
By Simon Sellars • Dec 29th, 2007 •
Category: Australia, Ballardosphere, Iain Sinclair, William Burroughs, paranormal
Just came across this snarky but amusing comment: ‘Both Ackroyd and the other strange geomancy warlock of English letters, JG Ballard, are now in their own deadpan, sly and slightly bitchy english way, sorta coughing and nudging their audiences towards Iain Sinclair….’
‘What would Borges do?’
By Simon Sellars • Nov 21st, 2007 •
Category: Ballardosphere, CCTV, alternate worlds, film, inner space, paranormal, surveillance, technology
Image from Diet Soap #1.
+ Following on from my rapture at discovering the SurveillanceSaver software, here are some more portals onto mediated inner space.
Chris Nakashima-Brown brings news of issue 1 of the fabulous zine, Diet Soap. The theme is Surveillance and there are poems, palindromes, fiction, reportage and lots of excellent collaged art, including (so […]
Cousin Silas: Another Flask of Ballard
By 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.
Myths of Things Seen in the Sky
By Simon Sellars • Sep 24th, 2007 •
Category: Ballardosphere, WWII, flying, paranormal, short stories, space relics
Ridgewell WWII Airfield: ‘Now little more than a collection of old huts, the area is haunted by the sounds of crashing WWII aeroplanes, shouting airmen, and other noises.’ (from paranormaldatabase.com).
Heuristic England is an interesting new blog exploring dreams, parapsychology, spectral presence, Freud, Jung … and Ballard. In a couple of recent posts, the blog’s convenor, […]
UFOpunk: Mac Tonnies’ Strange Blue World
By 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’) […]
