January 24, 2012
January 24, 2012
January 8, 2012
Baudrillard on Ballard: “Traffic & accidents, technology & death, sex & simulation are all one synchronous machine.” http://bit.ly/thEctJ
December 11, 2011
The car crash differs from other disasters in that it involves the most powerfully advertised commercial product of this century, an iconic entity that combines the elements of speed, power, dream and freedom within a highly stylized format that defuses any fears we may have of the inherent dangers of these violent and unstable machines.
“The Atrocity Exhibition”. J.G. Ballard, 1970.
December 8, 2011
"When J. G. Ballard, who passed away Sunday, at the age of seventy-eight, was trying to place “Crash,” his dystopian masterpiece of “auto” eroticism, with a publisher, he received a note with a rejected manuscript: “This author is beyond psychiatric help. Do not publish.”
He regarded it as a sign of “complete artistic success."
He regarded it as a sign of “complete artistic success."
September 21, 2011
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race."
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J.G. Ballard - Crash
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