JG Ballard vs the Metal Eaters
Author: Simon Sellars • Jun 11th, 2006 •Category: Ballardosphere, William Burroughs, cyberpunk
Here’s a review of an interesting-sounding Japanese cyberculture book, Full Metal Apache by Takayuki Tatsumi. In its analysis of Japanese popular culture — of ‘metal eaters’, ‘pink samurai and punk cats in space’ — Tatsumi brings into play Neuromancer, Blade Runner, Thomas Pynchon, JG Ballard, Burroughs, cyborg theory…
Wow — it all seems so…uh…last century.
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