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]]> http://www.ballardian.com/jeff-bartlett-man-for-our-times/comment-page-1#comment-1098 Simon Sellars Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:44:05 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/jeff-bartlett-man-for-our-times#comment-1098 S.vert, yes: I think Ballard's methodology is far more powerful and disturbing. He really does "rub the human face in its own vomit" (his own words) with the expectation that we will ask for seconds. S.vert, yes: I think Ballard’s methodology is far more powerful and disturbing. He really does “rub the human face in its own vomit” (his own words) with the expectation that we will ask for seconds.

]]> http://www.ballardian.com/jeff-bartlett-man-for-our-times/comment-page-1#comment-1097 Supervert Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:43:38 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/jeff-bartlett-man-for-our-times#comment-1097 That's a great exposition of the Crash Test Selector. The very way you described it made it less disturbing to me -- but then again, perhaps it is even more disturbing that words have the power to make us complicit in "the manufacture of our own death." I guess that's half the point of Crash: any repugnance inherent in the story is transmuted into something alluring by means of Ballard's stylized prose. That’s a great exposition of the Crash Test Selector. The very way you described it made it less disturbing to me — but then again, perhaps it is even more disturbing that words have the power to make us complicit in “the manufacture of our own death.” I guess that’s half the point of Crash: any repugnance inherent in the story is transmuted into something alluring by means of Ballard’s stylized prose.

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