Archive for the ‘Will Self’ Category
By
Rick McGrath •
Nov 30th, 2009 •
Category:
Ambit magazine, Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair, Lead Story, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, R.I.P. JGB, Shanghai, Shepperton, Solveig Nordlund, Steven Spielberg, Toby Litt, Will Self, William Burroughs, features, film, time travel
“Greetings from London! Hope all is well with you. I’ve just attended the long-anticipated JG Ballard Memorial celebration at the Tate Modern and now I’m catching my breath — and a few beers — at a nearby Thames-side pub with fellow Ballardians. We’re having a wonderful time — wish you were here. But let’s start at the beginning. We have time to order some Alsatian off the barbie…” Love from Rick.
By
Simon Sellars •
Jun 16th, 2008 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, CCTV, Iain Sinclair, Ian Curtis, Shepperton, Will Self, film, music, psychogeography, suburbia, surveillance
Iain Sinclair and Will Self together on stage talking about Ballard, Orson Welles and CCTV. Garden gnomes, Simon Reynolds and John Lydon get roped into the ring, also.
By
Simon Sellars •
May 2nd, 2008 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, Will Self, alternate worlds, celebrity culture, censorship, features, humour, pastiche, short stories
Is Woody Allen a Ballard fan? Lucy Vickery at The Spectator certainly is.
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.
By
Ballardian •
Feb 2nd, 2008 •
Category:
Shanghai, Shepperton, WWII, Will Self, William Burroughs, archival, dystopia, science fiction, urban decay
Will Self was recently interviewed on BBC Radio 4 by Mariella Frostrup about his admiration for J.G. Ballard’s work. Here’s a transcript of that interview.
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 [...]
