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This Time it's War!
Steven Meisel’s latest ‘atrocity porn’ is now online. [ via TimC ] Previously on Ballardian: k-punk on Steven Meisel.
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'The Crashman': An Experiment in Applied Internet Ballardianism
“The Crashman”: An Experiment in Applied Internet Ballardianism. by the Crashman. ABOVE: ‘White Bird’ by the Crashman. ‘XB-70, Tu-144: White Bird Must Fly, or she will crash’. From the moment Blake...
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We pick up the story as the Metro-Centre shopping mall is overrun and sealed off by a private paramilitary force, forcing a confrontation with police and regular army outside… ‘The Metro-Centre is...
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J.G. Ballard: In the Raw
The exhibition JG Ballard, Autopsy of the New Millennium, celebrating the work and enduring influence of J.G. Ballard, opens tomorrow at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Please enjoy...
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Ballardoscope: some attempts at approaching the writer as a visionary
BALLARDOSCOPE: SOME ATTEMPTS AT APPROACHING THE WRITER AS A VISIONARY by Jordi Costa ABOVE: Promo video for Autopsy of the New Millennium, alternate/parallel version. Directors: Benet Roman &...
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'To write for the Space Age': Moorcock on Burroughs
LEFT: Burroughs in 1963: ‘particularly spectral and menacing: a fitting mug shot for a literary outlaw’ (image via Reality Studio). RIGHT: Moorcock, from around the same era (image via Moorcock’s...
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'Architectures of the Near Future': An Interview with Nic Clear
ABOVE: ‘London after the Rain’, by Ben Olszyna-Marzys. A film produced for Nic Clear’s Unit 15 course, ‘Crash: Architectures of the Near Future’. In recognition of the sophistication of Ballard’s...
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“Extreme Possibilities”: Mapping “the sea of time and space” in J.G....
by Simon Sellars ABOVE: The Terminal Beach. Photo courtesy Brookings: “Beneath this concrete dome on Runit Island (part of Enewetak Atoll), built between 1977 and 1980 at a cost of about $239 million,...
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Fulfillment in a time of nihilism: John Gray and J.G. Ballard
by Mike Holliday JOHN GRAY is Emeritus Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. His numerous books include ‘Hayek on Liberty’ (1984) and Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and...
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‘Violence without end’: An Interview with J.G. Ballard
‘VIOLENCE WITHOUT END’: AN INTERVIEW WITH J.G. BALLARD Conducted by Evelyn Finger. Translation by Dan O’Hara. ABOVE: JGB in recent times. Photographer unknown (image courtesy The Terminal Collection)....
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An Exhibition of Atrocities: J.G. Ballard on Mondo films
AN EXHIBITION OF ATROCITIES: J.G. BALLARD ON MONDO FILMS interview by Mark Goodall The following is a short interview with JGB conducted by Mark Goodall in 2006 for his book Sweet & Savage: The...
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