By Mike Holliday • Feb 27th, 2011 •
Category: consumerism, features, Lead Story, philosophy, religion, Shanghai, time travel, war, William Burroughs
The political theorist John Gray has long been an enthusiastic admirer of J.G. Ballard, and Ballard often expressed appreciation for Gray’s work. Mike Holliday examines the essental nature of this ‘two-man mutual admiration society’.
By Simon Sellars • Aug 23rd, 2009 •
Category: academia, alternate worlds, features, inner space, Japan, Lead Story, memory, micronations, nuclear war, Pacific, Shanghai, war, WWII
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 Simon Sellars • Dec 24th, 2008 •
Category: academia, architecture, enviro-disaster, film, Fredric Jameson, interviews, Jean Baudrillard, politics, urban ruins, utopia, war
Nic Clear leads the remarkable Unit 15 course on the built environment at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. In this interview, Nic explains the course’s focus on the work of Ballard as a way to counter the lamentable state of current discourse on architecture. The article includes clips of six stunning films produced by students as part of this Ballard-inspired methodology.
By Simon Sellars • Dec 11th, 2008 •
Category: Ballardosphere, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, science fiction, war, William Burroughs
A new interview with Michael Moorcock, discussing Burroughs, Ballard, the Bomb and more.
By Jordi Costa • Jul 26th, 2008 •
Category: Alain Robbe-Grillet, America, autobiography, Barcelona, Bruce Sterling, deep time, drained swimming pools, features, flying, hyperreality, inner space, literature, medical procedure, science fiction, sexual politics, Shanghai, Shepperton, space relics, speed & violence, Steven Spielberg, surrealism, technology, war, WWII
Jordi Costa, the curator of J.G. Ballard: Autopsy of the New Millennium, currently exhibiting at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, gifts us this incisive analysis of the major themes in Ballard’s work. Accompanying the essay is the alternate version of the exhibition’s promo trailer.
By Ballardian • Jul 22nd, 2008 •
Category: Barcelona, celebrity culture, dystopia, features, film, hyperreality, utopia, visual art, war
Promotional film and catalogue prologue for the exhibition J.G. Ballard: Autopsy of the New Millennium, at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Film features Marilyn Monroe’s ghost, Ballard’s mellifluous tones, snatched Aphex Twin, what looks like James Dean’s car and a severe case of the night terrors.
By Simon Sellars • Jun 25th, 2008 •
Category: Ballardosphere, consumerism, urban revolt, war
Kingdom Come, JoBurg style…
By Crashman • Apr 8th, 2008 •
Category: censorship, David Cronenberg, death of affect, features, film, flying, Freud, humour, Lead Story, media landscape, Michael Moorcock, music, psychopathology, speed & violence, sport, war, WWII, YouTube
Drawing inspiration from J.G. Ballard’s exhibition of crashed cars in 1970, the Crashman presents his own festival of Atrocity films: aviation disasters set to musical soundtracks.
By Simon Sellars • Sep 26th, 2007 •
Category: Ballardosphere, visual art, war
Steven Meisel’s latest ‘atrocity porn’ is now online. [ via TimC ] Previously on Ballardian: k-punk on Steven Meisel.
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