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Ballard and the Vicissitudes of Time
BALLARD AND THE VICISSITUDES OF TIME by Mike Holliday ABOVE: Artwork by Jeffrey K. Potter for ‘News from the Sun’ (commissioned for the collection Memories of the Space Age, Arkham House, 1988). The...
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'Confronting Ourselves': Ballard and Circular Time
Solaris (last scene) (1972), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky ‘”We do not move in one direction, rather do we wander back and forth, turning now this way and now that. We go back on our own tracks…” That...
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"Paradigm of nowhere": Shepperton, a photo essay (part 2)
All photography by Simon Sellars. Bizarrely, it has been almost a year since I posted the first part of this photo essay. There are so many loose ends dangling from this site, frayed and incomplete...
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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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Iterative Architecture: a Ballardian Text, part 2
‘Iterative Architecture: a Ballardian Text’ by Brian Baker ..:: CONTINUED from >> Part 1 ::… ♣♠♥♦ The Joker. The Joker in the pack is the card that, in some games, can replace (or substitute...
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Iterative Architecture: a Ballardian Text
‘Iterative Architecture: a Ballardian Text’ by Brian Baker Instructions/ Introduction Readers hoping to solve the mystery of J.G. Ballard’s ‘The Beach Murders’ may care to approach it in the form of a...
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Conference paper on Ballard and ‘circular time’
Still from La Jetée (1962), dir. Chris Marker. If you’re in Melbourne this Thursday, come and say hello! I’m giving a paper on Ballard, circular time and the nouvelle vague this Thursday, October 1,...
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Miracles of Life: foreword to the Greek edition
This is the foreword to the Greek edition of Ballard’s Miracles of Life, due to be published by Oxy in November 2009. In 2006 I interviewed Jim Ballard. I was nervous at the thought of matching wits...
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Rick McGrath’s Letter From London: The JG Ballard Memorial
Rick McGrath’s Letter From London: The JG Ballard Memorial All photography by Rick McGrath. Sunday, November 15, 2009, 3:45pm, The Founders Pub, London. Dear Simon, Greetings from London! Hope all is...
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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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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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