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Archive for the ‘the middle classes’ Category

'Perverse Technology': Dan Mitchell & Simon Ford interview J.G. Ballard

By Ballardian • Aug 15th, 2008 •

Category: Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, archival, consumerism, photography, psychopathology, sexual politics, speed & violence, surrealism, terrorism, the middle classes, visual art

Here’s another republished interview, this time from 2005 as Mitchell and Ford probe JGB about his infamous 1970 ‘Crashed Cars’ exhibition, which elicited drunken aggression from its bemused audience.


‘Violence without end’: An Interview with J.G. Ballard

By Dan OHara • Jun 24th, 2008 •

Category: America, Germany, archival, boredom, enviro-disaster, inner space, politics, psychopathology, religion, science fiction, speed & violence, the middle classes, war

This is the latest in Dan O’Hara’s back translations of German Ballard chats: an interview with JGB from 2005. This may well be the only time Ballard has been asked to consider the lyrics of Kanye West.


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.


Simon Brook's Minus One

By Simon Sellars • Mar 8th, 2008 •

Category: David Cronenberg, Steven Spielberg, alternate worlds, film, humour, medical procedure, psychiatry, reviews, short stories, the middle classes

In 1991 Simon Brook made a short film from J.G. Ballard’s obscure 1963 short story, ‘Minus One’. Enjoy this super-rare screening of Simon’s film.


The Peasants are Revolting? You Can Say that Again! (so says the King of Id)

By Simon Sellars • Apr 9th, 2007 •

Category: Ballardosphere, politics, the middle classes, urban revolt

At the risk of incurring another bogey in the comments box, Dr John emails to inform me of a piece in the Guardian entitled ‘Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future’.
John writes: ‘It might just be because I’ve been getting ready for a conference on J. G. Ballard, but this article [...]