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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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Grand Theft Auto IV: Ballardian atrocities
Martin Pichlmair has written an interesting article for Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, ‘Grand Theft Auto IV considered as an Atrocity Exhibition’, that draws parallels between the...
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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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‘Flesh dissolved in an acid of light’: the B-movie as second sight
by Simon Sellars This is an earlier version of an article published in Continuum, Volume 24, Issue 5 October 2010, pages 721-33. Both versions were based on a paper given by Simon Sellars at the...
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Apollo Roulette: part 1
APOLLO ROULETTE, PART 1 by Brian Baker In this sequel to ‘Iterative Architecture: a Ballardian Text’, an ‘auto-displacement’ Ian Fleming/J.G. Ballard mashup, Brian Baker applies the method to desert...
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Apollo Roulette, Part 2
APOLLO ROULETTE, PART 2 by Brian Baker In part 2 of ‘Apollo Roulette’, Brian Baker’s sequel to ‘Iterative Architecture: a Ballardian Text’, an ‘auto-displacement’ Ian Fleming/J.G. Ballard mashup,...
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‘No Original Response’: J.G. Ballard predicts Social Media, CCTV, Reality TV
Above: J.G. Ballard. Photo by Simon Durrant, from i-D magazine, 1987. Above: Excerpt from Ballard’s 1977 Vogue essay (via Gideon Defoe). Response to a post at Buzzfeed on how J.G. Ballard “predicted...
View Article“Nothing to See Here”: a Film by Paul H Williams
Nothing To See Here from Paul H Williams on Vimeo. “Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there – a city, a...
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Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe
/// This summer, there is only one book to take to the Terminal Beach… APPLIED BALLARDIANISM: MEMOIR FROM A PARALLEL UNIVERSE. Dangerous Bends ahead… SPEED UP! Fleeing the excesses of 90s cyberculture,...
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