Comments on: 'When in doubt, quote Ballard': An interview with Iain Sinclair

By: Boring Like A Drill. A Blog. » London: City of Disappearances

Boring Like A Drill. A Blog. » London: City of Disappearances — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:39:43 +0000

[...] enlightened lately, having explored further afield into the suburbs, and learning from J.G. Ballard how to appreciate the new city that has sprung up in the Docklands. Someone asked how he knew that all the stories collected are [...]

By: What I Believe by J.G Ballard — Traumata

What I Believe by J.G Ballard — Traumata — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:58:35 +0000

[...] called ‘What I Believe’ and was apparently first published in 1984. Basically, as Iain Sinclair says “When in doubt, quote Ballard” (Advice to live by as far as I’m [...]

By: J.G. Ballard haatte en omhelsde de toekomst - Sargasso

J.G. Ballard haatte en omhelsde de toekomst - Sargasso — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:00:48 +0000

[...] moderne wereld. ‘Bij twijfel, quote Ballard,’ zei schrijver Iain Sinclair ooit in een interview. Geen kunstenaar schreef zo geraffineerd op de huid van de moderne tijd (en een stukje van morgen). [...]

By: Cash

Cash — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:38:34 +0000

Great image of Ballard visiting the east end, once, and he never gets out of the car! Just cruises on thru…reminds me of Ballard describing being at some guggenheim art palace and unwittingly seeing Peggy lonely, dying, and being helped by a caretaker in an adjacent room away from the Ernst work….I love it…Good stuff!

By: Luca Del Baldo

Luca Del Baldo — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:40:42 +0000

Hi! Very interesting, Mr. Sinclair! I think Jim Ballard the greatest writer in the world, I made three covers for Italian Publishers (CRASH, COCAINE NIGHTS – Jim loved it – and Rushing to Paradise) and I was in touch with him for years. See my site, for your pleasure and tell me what you think about it. Ciao, from the Painter LUCA DEL BALDO

By: John

John — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:48:51 +0000

Sorry this is the correct link to psychogeography and the High Wycombe terror suspects

By: John

John — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:44:14 +0000

Nice to see Iain acknowledging the role of High Wycombe in the psychogeography of London's fringelands (mind you Gordon S Maxwell was doing that in 1924). I've written something about psychogeography and the Wycombe terror suspects on this blog. You'll find a list of City of Disappearances events here

By: k-punk

k-punk — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:50:19 +0000

Mors Ontologica…

Spray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that clacks and vibrates about in a closed circle forever. A reflex machine, like an ant. Repeating his last……

By: Iraklis

Iraklis — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:55:55 +0000

Needless to say, I would almost kill for a copy of the Cokliss film – I really mean it…

By: Iraklis

Iraklis — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:54:20 +0000

By far one of the best interviews on this site – don’t ever think of having any second thoughts about maintaining this site, Simon!
Haven’t had the chance to read Iain Sinclair’s Crash book, but in this interview he seems to be much more sympathetic on the Atrocity Exhibition movie. I don’t mean to be rude or smart-ass, but if I were in his shoes I wouldn’t have written about AtrEx-the movie if all i had seen was fragments from a work in progress. That aside, I still admire Sinclair and his works, but he beauty and interst of Ballard’s work lies (among other things) exactly on this : no one can claim to be the one and only apostle of his ideas – sorry for the blah-blah-blah nad best wishes!!!

By: Fitz

Fitz — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:27:09 +0000

Excuse me. I see my question is answered at the start of the article.

By: Fitz

Fitz — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:26:17 +0000

Where are the great photos of Ballard from? They look like stills from a movie?

By: SERO

SERO — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:34:35 +0000

Great stuff, many thanks. The BFI monograph is still the best thing written about JGB.

By: johnny

johnny — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:41:18 +0000

I’ve ignored my own work spending the morning reading this and checking out the links. Time well spent. First rate, all around.

By: Mountain*7 - a blog about music, books and culture

Mountain*7 - a blog about music, books and culture — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:11:28 +0000

Ballardian…

J.G. Ballard & Iain Sinclair

I thought [Ballard had] really got it right. It never was science fiction, it was hyper-sharp reportage. His reality of the 60s had now come into place in the English landscape. That kind of world he’s endlessly talk…

By: Uncle.Crawly

Uncle.Crawly — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:38:41 +0000

Great interview — thanks!