Super-Cannes Links
David Smith is a blogger who came to Ballard “very late”. Having just finished Super-Cannes, however, he has posted a collection of links, reviews and musings relating to that book. It’s a useful...
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The Rats that Ate Mill Park
by Simon Sellars Suburban Badlands: the Mill Park aftermath. Photo: Angela Wylie (from the Age newspaper). The system is self-regulating. It relies on our sense of civic responsibility. Without that,...
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Ballardosphere Wrap-Up, Part 5
Here I present the latest wrapup, not as extensive as I would like as I’m currently in Dubai trying to locate my missing passport, while entertaining the thought of spending a few days, maybe a week in...
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Ballard Backlash x2
There has been a Ballard backlash. Here are two of the more aggressive memes. Ballard vs The Blogosphere Ballard was recently interviewed by the Guardian in a series on writers’ rooms. In this feature...
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The Metro-Centre Comes Alive
© Metro-Centre, 2007. Something is stirring over at our favourite shopping mall. After lying fallow for almost two months, the official blog of the Metro-Centre shopping centre in Brooklands stirs to...
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A Home and a Grave: Mike Holliday on The Unlimited Dream Company
Cover detail: The Unlimited Dream Company (Cape 1979; artwork by Bill Botten). Mike Holliday explains how to read J.G. Ballard’s 1979 novel The Unlimited Dream Company as a fascistic work. Ambiguity...
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It's An Ad, Ad, Ad World
Review by Rick McGrath To mark this month’s release of Kingdom Come in paperback, former ad man Rick McGrath takes another look at KC from ‘the perspective of marketing, advertising and...
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J.G. Ballard & Architectures of Control
by Dan Lockton Ernõ Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower, London W10. “I built skyscrapers for people to live in there and now they messed them up — disgusting.” Photo by See Wah, used under Creative Commons...
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‘You are Hochhaus!’: Ballard in Berlin
Image from Hochhaus, © Paul Plamper & Niklas Goldbach, 2008. An Interview with Paul Plamper and Niklas Goldbach by Dan O’Hara In July on the roof terrace of the Ludwigsmuseum, the major museum of...
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'Vomit, violence, tabloid architecture…'
The house that Sam built … from Pam. MelbPsy gets all Atrocity Exhibition on Sam Newman’s ass house: “As he stood beneath the fractured, glacial stare of Pamela Anderson, her linear geometry echoed a...
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Bunker Tales
Further to yesterday’s post on Lord Horror, I urge you to follow it up with a reading of this interview with Britton and Butterworth over at Reality Studio. It’s about the Savoy duo’s meeting with...
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Strange Fiction
Photograph: Eamonn McCabe. There’s a new interview with JGB in the Guardian, conducted by James Campbell. It’s short, it lazily rehashes the same old stuff about Ballard’s house and (perhaps as a...
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Crown Casino: ‘A snarling, digitised mutilation’
by SIMON SELLARS & STEVEN from MELB PSY Soundwalk by MELANIE CHILIANIS; photography by Simon Sellars. “The consumer society is a kind of soft police state. We think we have choice, but everything...
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‘A dirty and diseased mind’: The Unicorn bookshop trial
by Mike Holliday The Unicorn Bookshop edition of Ballard’s Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan and the conceptual auto-disaster. Numerous studies have been conducted upon patients in...
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A Fascist State? Another Look at Kingdom Come and Consumerism
The Bentall Centre. Photo by Fr3d.org. Reproduced under Creative Commons. by Mike Holliday Why do I dislike the Bentall Centre so much? Because it’s so… cretinous. [The consumers] seem to be moving...
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Taking the Top Off His Skull: The Genesis of J.G. Ballard’s Crash
ABOVE: J.G. Ballard and his friend Dr Christopher Evans in the Sunday Mirror, 1968. The article describes their proposed play for the ICA, entitled Crash!. It was to feature a reconstruction of a car...
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;embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/25yOIOl79d4″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”350″> A Melbourne rugby reporter, Ben Davis, presents his live-to-air...
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