Comments on: R.I.P. JGB: Tributes from the Ballardosphere, part 1

By: Annick Rivoire

Annick Rivoire — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:50:46 +0000

Sorry because it's only in French, but it's original stuff about JGB’s passing. We've been publishing the french version of the interview you first published with Bruce Sterling. We also asked Emilie Notéris, who is co-author of a French anthology of texts and artistic contributions on Ballard called « J. G. Ballard hautes altitudes » (editions è®e) to write something about this event. And Nicolas Boone, a french artist who is organising shootings with real people on the street, has made a poem. You can read it on poptronics here and here .

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:37:46 +0000

Thanks for posting, Ashley: 21C, Transit Lounge and Mark Dery were a big influence on my own understanding of JGB’s work. It was a very important movement. Cheers, Simon.

By: Ashley Crawford, former editor, 21C magazine

Ashley Crawford, former editor, 21C magazine — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:32:44 +0000

During the 1990s I had the great honour of an ongoing, if sporadic, correspondence with Mr. Ballard in my role as editor of the now defunct 21C and World Art magazines. He responded to my first written foray immediately and thenceforth lovely notes and postcards would find their way from Shepparton to our offices in Melbourne, Australia. Mr Ballard was consistently generous with his insights and comments. When we compiled a selection of 21C articles for the publication Transit Lounge he supplied the following blurb: “A brilliant series of articles that read like news bulletin from the future. Everyone on the way to the day after tomorrow should read Transit Lounge – gripping and engrossing.” I was in heaven for months afterwards. When he blurbed Escape Velocity by Mark Dery he wrote that it was the “best guide I have read to the new computer culture that will soon dominate our lives.” I mention these not to promote the books but as clear cut evidence of Mr Ballard’s incredible generosity to others. His insights into the world around us will be sorely missed in the strange times in which we live; times that only he could predict.

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