‘Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.’ #JGBallard #HighRise

“The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology." #JGBallard

"Many people have commented on his complete lack of ideas and his blurring of fiction and reality ... But Reagan's real threat is the compelling example he offers to future film actors and media manipulators with presidential ambitions..." #JGBallard #AtrocityExhibition

I've created a new way of reading JG Ballard's challenging The Atrocity Exhibition. Including Ballard's 1990 notes and intertextual Wikipedia links, it emphasises the poetic repetition of the original and allows multiple entry points as encouraged by JGB fentonville.co.uk/atrocity

"The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the spectres of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy." #JGBallard

My book Applied Ballardianism hasn't attracted much academic attention (dunno if that's good or bad)... Until now! Check out Bob Cluness's perceptive essay on the occult elements in my work: academia.edu/83791618/Tune_…

“I think the prosperity in the 60s and 70s induced a kind of infantilism […] These days most people’s idea of the past is a rerun of Casablanca. They have very little idea of history nowadays. So time has dismantled itself.”

“...no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have ... a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet." #JGBallard

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"The environment is filled with more fiction and fantasy than any of us can singly isolate. It’s no longer necessary for us individually to dream." #JGBallard

"Computers above all are leading us into a realm of really stupendous change where we’ll have to look twice to even identify ourselves." #JGBallard

"That wasn’t a true dream, but an ancient organic memory millions of years old. The innate releasing mechanisms laid down in your cytoplasm have been awakened.” #JGBallard #DrownedWorld

An interesting Spanish take on JG Ballard's Cocaine Nights elespanol.com/malaga/vivir/t…

JG Ballard discusses Godard's Alphaville - 'the best science-fiction film of all' - from a short film by Chris Petit (Radio On) made for 1990 film series Moving Pictures.

A great discussion on Ballard's The Unlimited Dream Company, and the rest of his work, by David Paddy author of The Empires of J.G. Ballard anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/nin…

"This was the sort of resident who was content to do nothing but sit in his over-priced apartment, watch television with the sound turned down, and wait for his neighbours to make a mistake." #JGBallard #HighRise

Some nicely Ballardian micro-fiction here: Managed retreat—a blueprint for the future of humanity by S Beard Since humanity’s recent commitment to the collapse of our societies and the extinction of our species, the only remaining question concerns the ... journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog/2022/10/05/cal…

JG Ballard's The Unlimited Dream Company?

In case you're short of amusement in the holidays, here's JG Ballard's brilliant short story The Terminal Beach reimagined as a 2 page Role Playing Game. Of course it's only for one player ...