By Simon Sellars • Dec 28th, 2007 •
Category: Ballardosphere, alternate worlds, body horror, celebrity culture, posthumanism, science fiction
Chris N-B asks: ‘What is Michael Jackson’s favorite literary science fiction? I’ll bet you dinner at Picasso that right now he’s curled up in the overstuffed armchair of his penthouse suite at the Bellagio, giggling at The Atrocity Exhibition.’
By Simon Sellars • Oct 26th, 2007 •
Category: Ballardosphere, body horror, posthumanism, speed & violence, technology
John Carter Wood sent me this link to vintage German crash-test photos. These shots evoke the footage in the Crash! short film, where Ballard notes, ‘I remember seeing some films on television of test crashes a few years ago. … They filmed them beautifully because they wanted to know what was happening. They weren’t interested […]
By Simon Sellars • Aug 10th, 2007 •
Category: Chris Petit, David Cronenberg, Iain Sinclair, Philip K. Dick, William Burroughs, architecture, death of affect, features, film, filmography, posthumanism, psychogeography, speed & violence
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ABOVE: Crash! on YouTube
by Simon Sellars
CRASH! (1971)
Director: Harley Cokliss
Writer: J.G. Ballard
Starring: J.G. Ballard & Gabrielle Drake
I wasn’t satisfied by just writing SF stories, you see. My imagination was eager to expand in all directions.”
J.G. Ballard. ‘From Shanghai to Shepperton’, 1982.
Leached away by the camera lens, the dimension of depth is missing from the room, and […]
By Ballardian • Aug 10th, 2007 •
Category: architecture, archival, death of affect, film, filmography, posthumanism, psychogeography, speed & violence
ABOVE: Cokliss/Ballard on YouTube
CRASH!
Director: Harley Cokliss
Writer: J.G. Ballard
Starring: J.G. Ballard & Gabrielle Drake
This a transcript of the meta-narration and voiceover from the film CRASH!.
See here for ‘Crash! Full-Tilt Autogeddon’, an appraisal of the film.
NARRATOR: In slow motion, the test cars moved towards each other on collision courses, unwinding behind them the coils that ran to […]
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’) […]
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