Underground Magazine rhythm+noise freebie 1987.
#JGBallard Crash tribute by Mute boss Daniel Miller.
Operatic #DepecheMode instrumental by Martin Gore.
Halfassed #SonicYouth
#TheShamen before snacking on the ecstasy & Kool-Aid.
#ThrowingMuses, #ClockDVA, the Cabs.
#Cassunday @mflah.bsky.social
“What I like about Ballard’s work is how he turns this #apocalyptic vision into something life affirming. Whatever catastrophes happen in history, human life re-emerges and other types of civilisation arise. That is also my belief.” #JGBallard #books #utopian fivebooks.com/best-books/j...
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
#JGBallard (1930-2009)
#UK #England #Britain #Ireland #Scotland #Wales #Science #Fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi
JG Ballard's The Unlimited Dream Company in my hand
With the new Chris Priest bio of Ballard about to be released, thought I'd catch up with a few unread volumes on the shelf. Haven't read a novel of his since Cocaine Nights came out in 1997! Three chapters in and I don't know why. Still a genius in ideas and language. #booksky #jgballard
#MavisNicholson speaks to #ScienceFiction #writer and #novelist #JGBallard in this interview he speaks about his style of #writing and how he is not ashamed to be known as a science fiction writer youtu.be/fzoXzL5EP8E?...
Films of the 1990s. David Cronenberg's "Crash". #films #movies #crash #davidcronenberg #jgballard #jamesspader #hollyhunter #deborahkaraunger #eliaskoteas #rosannaarquette #howardshore #PeterSuschitzky #PeterMacNeill
J.G. Ballard ~ The Terminal Beach (David Pelham Cover)
(1977 Penguin paperback)
#JGBallard #Ballardian #CoverArt
#ComsatAngels. Like another great post-punk Sheffield band much inspired by science fiction. Name taken from a terrific #JGBallard story about a global child genius conspiracy; song about the sadly neglected Nevil Shute post-apocalyptic novel.
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"Are you on drugs, Gerald?"
We're staying home in tonight's movie.
#Home #jgballard #anthonysher
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Reading projects to start the year.
Chronological read of #JGBallard short stories - bonus introduction by #MartinAmis.
The complete Conan by #RobertEHoward.
Cracking on with the transcendent #ChronicleOfAncientSunlight by #HenryWilliamson.
The misguided pursuit to understand quantum mechanics.
Is it closer to #JGBallard or #Baudrillard?
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
What lies at the end of the American frontier? The Earth is spinning towards the east at around 1,675 km/h (1,040 mph).
Finished #ConcreteIsland
#JGBallard
His relationships…all the thousand and one emotionally loaded transactions of his childhood, would have been tolerable if he had been able to pay for them in some neutral currency, hard cash across the high-priced counters of these relationships….
#ConcreteIsland
#JGBallard
For years now he had
re-mythologized his own childhood…
a small boy playing endlessly by himself in a long suburban garden…Perhaps even his marriage to Catherine…had succeeded precisely because it recreated for him this imaginary empty garden.
“Today’s politics is tailor-made for him. Smiles leaking everywhere, mood music, the sales campaign that gets rid of the need for a product. Even the shiftiness. People like to be conned. It reminds them that everything is a game”
#JGBallard #UKPolitics
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#JGBallard
"The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now."
Kingdom Come by JG Ballard (2006)
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⚪ ..the convergence of consumerism and fascism
#weirdfiction #tanithlee #raybradbury #fritzleiber #jackvance #theodoresturgeon #jgballard #ursulakleguin
Cover of Running Wild, illustration by Janet Woolley
Just finished: J.G. Ballard “Running Wild” (Hutchinson), 1988. Finally got around to this gated-community-as-panopticon novella. It was the only work of Ballard’s fiction that I had yet to read. Kind of bittersweet to come to the end. #BookSky #JGBallard
‘Ballard and I were invited. We went. We flew.’ Brian Aldiss on J.G. Ballard—early days in Oxford, Rio misadventures, and a friendship lost to silence. Read the full post: brianaldiss.co.uk/2025/12/09/f... #brianaldiss #jgballard #newwavesf
6. AGENTES DEL OLVIDO, de Iain Sinclair (@La_Felguera)
En sus libros #IainSinclair se mueve para encontrar frecuencias y coincidencias entre tiempos, edificios y rituales. Aquí sigue los pasos de #AlgernonBlackwood, #ArthurMachen, #JGBallard y #HPLovecraft, agentes del olvido.
Tonight's film is an adaptation of the J.G. Ballard short story 'The Enormous Space'.
"I'm about to reach out and touch the infinite"
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#jgballard
What Does J.G. Ballard Look Like?
Illustration for The Atrocity Exhibition by Phoebe Gloeckner,
Re/Search, 1990
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian
Flamingo Modern Classics edition of J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition (Introduction by Japanese novelist Hari Kunzru)
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian #ExperimentalLiterature
J.G. Ballard’s Experimental Text Collages: 'Project for a New Novel', his 1958 Foray into Avant-Garde Literature.
#JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian #ExperimentalLiterature
J.G. Ballard & J.G. Ballard
#JGBallard #BOTD
The novelist J.G. Ballard as a student at Cambridge University, in 1950. The surreal composition, showing two images of Ballard facing each other, was created by a double exposure and presumably set up by Ballard himself.
“Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.”
#JGBallard
Ballard in costume for his blink-and-you-miss it cameo
in Empire of the Sun (1987)
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to authors William Hope Hodgson (1877) and J.G. Ballard (1930).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #williamhopehodgson #jgballard
For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.
- James Graham Ballard, Crash
born on this day, 1930
#BookSky
#JGBallard
"I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen."
✒ #JGBallard was #BOTD 15 November 1930.
