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Indexed out of existence…

By Simon Sellars • May 2nd, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Will Self, alternate worlds, celebrity culture, censorship, humour, pastiche, short stories

Is Woody Allen a Ballard fan? Lucy Vickery at The Spectator certainly is.



Psychogeography? Psychopathology, maybe…

By Simon Sellars • Feb 21st, 2008 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Iain Sinclair, Will Self, psychogeography

Iain Sinclair and Will Self on the same stage talking about psychogeography and Ballard? Who knew.



Prophets of Doom

By Simon Sellars • Jul 29th, 2007 •

Category: Ballardosphere, Philip K. Dick, Will Self, William Burroughs, dystopia, science fiction

In the Independent, Deborah Orr parses Ballard in her analysis of John Gray’s Black Mass:
In his latest book, Black Mass, the philosopher John Gray traces the history of Western millenarianism … For Gray, it is utopianism itself that is the problem. He suggests that ‘it is dystopian thinking we most need.’ We must, if we […]